"We find some comfort in the fact that he did something he has done for so many summers - went down to the field with his friends to play cricket," the boy's father wrote in a statement.
The accident occurred when the 17-year-old was warming up with his teammates.
"We also want to express our support for his teammate who threw the ball – this accident has affected two young men, and our thoughts are also with him and his family," the father writes.
The boy died in hospital on Thursday afternoon, local time.
In November 2014, Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes died in a Sydney hospital two days after being hit by a ball near his ear.
