More than 1000 friends and family have packed out Melbourne 's Junction Oval to farewell a beloved teenager tragically killed in a cricket training accident last month .

Ben Austin, 17, died in hospital days after he was fatally hit by a cricket ball in his head and neck area while at training in Ferntree Gully on October 29.

The Shane Warne Stand was a sea of 1100 of the teen's friends, family and members of the public today.

Mourners were encouraged to wear their cricket club tops, scarves or a splash of colour.

Ben's closest loved ones sat on chairs in the middle of the grounds, where his Collingwood Football Club-adorned coffin was displayed.

The Magpies' 2023 premiership cup had pride of place at the service, on a table next to a framed photo of Ben, a Sherrin footba

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