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Mitchell Marsh is ready to retire from domestic red-ball cricket with Western Australia but keeps his Test profession hopes alive.
Mitchell Marsh (left) and Travis Head. (AP Photo)
Mitchell Marsh has reportedly decided to call time on his domestic red-ball profession. In response to the Nine newspapers in Australia, he recently informed his Western Australia teammates that he would step away from the Sheffield Shield — the prime domestic red-ball tournament of the country — after the present season.
The choice got here after Marsh recorded scores of 9 and 4 against Victoria in Melbourne in the newest match. Nevertheless, interestingly, the all-rounder hasn’t closed the door on his Test profession.
It’s not usual for players retired from domestic red-ball cricket to proceed within the Test arena, but Marsh has played more Tests than first-class matches for his state (nine) since 2019. He has often been used as a plug-and-play within the Aussie middle-order due to his ability on the bouncy tracks at home.
His numbers at home aren’t bad either: 1025 runs in 22 Tests at 34.16.
Marsh has all the time been a part of Australia’s plans for the continuing Ashes against England.
“He’s got a game that would provide an injection, a special have a look at how he might attack it,” chief selector George Bailey said of Marsh in November. “It’s not the trail we’re going right down to start the series, but what it looks like afterward, we’ll see.”
Even head coach Andrew McDonald name-dropped him before the series.
“We can be comfortable picking someone, and if you should put a reputation to it, Mitch Marsh, out of white-ball cricket if we felt like that was going to profit the Test team. He’s the captain of the white-ball team. It’s very hard for him to vacate and balance out Test preparation, if he was to be within the window for that. We still haven’t given up on Mitch Marsh’s Test profession.”
Last yr, Marsh lost the battle for a spot within the team to Beau Webster, who’s quicker with the ball and was more in-form in domestic cricket before India got here to the shores for the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Currently, it’s hard to see where Marsh could fit into the team. Even Webster hasn’t played in either of the Ashes Tests, and when a middle-order position opened when Travis Head shifted to the highest of the order for Brisbane, Josh Inglis was chosen to exchange him.
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