Styles has a staggering 22.7 million followers on Twitter and is followed by well-known Australians such as Karl Stefanovic and Malcolm Turnbull as well as retired cricketer Kevin Pietersen.

While nothing has been reported on whether or not Styles follows cricket, his birth town of Redditch is in Worcestershire, home to the respected English county cricket side where Hughes played a successful season in 2012.

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To put some perspective around the scale of retweets and favourites for Styles' tweet, other high-profile Australian sportsmen such as Shane Warne, Tim Cahill, Nick Kyrgios, Quade Cooper and Israel Folau have all also tweeted their well wishes to Hughes and have had a combined total of approximately 900 retweets and 1500 favourites.