Shaken NSW cricket team members have met on Wednesday as they await news on teammate Phillip Hughes’ condition.

Cricket NSW assembled the Blues players and staff at the club’s Moore Park headquarters on Wednesday morning to ensure they are getting all the counselling and support they need in the wake of Hughes’ life-threatening injury.

Hughes, 25, remains in a critical condition in St Vincent’s Hospital following emergency surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, having been injured when hit by a bouncer from NSW paceman Sean Abbott in the since-abandoned Sheffield Shield game at the SCG on Tuesday.

South Australian batsman Hughes previously played for NSW for five seasons and has many good mates on the Blues team, including David Warner and Brad Haddin.

“(The NSW players) are doing it tough obviously,” Cricket NSW CEO Andrew Jones told Triple M radio.

“They were pretty shaken up yesterday – it’s not what you expect to happen in a game of cricket.

“Phil was in a pretty bad way when it happened and being opponents and former teammates and mates in many cases, they were the first responders … the first guys on the scene of what was a horrible accident.”