<i>Phil picks banana </i>
Phil Hughes might be Australian cricket's next big thing but that does not mean he gets out of doing his chores around the house.
The batting prodigy returned home to Macksville last week and spent a day working with his father on the family's 12-hectare banana farm.
More accustomed to carrying the Australian batting line-up, the opening batsman instead lugged banana bunches after cutting them from a tree with a machete.
In an interview to air on Channel 7's Sunday Night program, Hughes reveals he wants to retire back to Macksville to run a stud cattle farm with his banana-farming father.
"If all goes to plan, that's what I want to do with my dad," he told the programme.
"Hopefully we will have a pretty big property and have stud cattle on there. That's my dream."
Hughes said his celebrity faded when he returned home, and locals were quick to rib him about his diamond stud earring.
"Yeah, when I get back there's a bit of cheek there. They ask if I have turned into a city boy now," he said.
Hughes said the layout of his backyard could be the reason for his strength through the covers.
"If you hit the clothes line it was 25 runs automatic," Hughes said.
"If you hit it on the full, it was 50 . . . the side fence here was two runs on the bounce or roll, on the full was four, the back fence was four, on the full on the back fence was six, the chook pen was six."
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