Aussie players to sport new helmet

Australia's cricketers will get the opportunity to test a new helmet attachment designed in the aftermath of the Phillip Hughes tragedy, it was announced on Wednesday.

Cricket Australia high performance chief Pat Howard said that the clip-on attachment, manufactured by British company Masuri, is made of honeycomb plastic and foam and offers protection to the exposed back of the neck, the area where Hughes was hit in November last year.

Howard said that Masuri invested 240 hours of development time into "StemGuard"."It's got impact protection and comes down the side of the head. “Players will be given an opportunity to try it out in a game outside an international, but work our way up."