 Hutton managed to recraft his technique, using a specially lightened bat, and even improved his batting average after the war.He was the target of Lindwall and Miller's "opening blitz", but his only batting injury was when he was caught on the chin by the New South Wales fast bowler Ginty Lush and taken to hospital just before the Fifth Test.He also suffered from tonsillitis and had to 'retire ill' after reaching 122 in the Fifth Test at Sydney.