Australia captain Michael Clarke will act as a pallbearer at Phillip Hughes’s funeral in his home town of Macksville tomorrow.

The funeral of the former Test batsman, who died last week after being hit on the head by a bouncer in a Sheffield Shield match, will also be attended by the full Australia men’s and women’s squads and many more major figures from the world of cricket.

The service at Hughes’s old school is expected to last an hour and will begin with the opening music Forever Young and conclude with Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.

Hughes died three days before his 26th birthday.

His funeral will be broadcast and relayed on big screens in the Macksville High School grounds to up to 4,000 residents of the small coastal town in northern New South Wales.

West Indies and New Zealand greats Brian Lara and Richard Hadlee will be among those attending, as well as a who’s who of Australian cricketers of the past two decades and members of the touring India team.

But Alaistair Cook will not attend due to his commitments with the England one-day international side currently in Sri Lanka.