Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has confirmed that he won’t be opening the innings for Australia within the upcoming ODI World Cup in India. Marsh is at the moment in Australia and has been appointed the captain for the five-match ODI sequence towards South Africa. Marsh led Australia within the just lately concluded T20I sequence as properly beating South Africa 3-0.
Talking forward of the primary ODI towards South Africa, Mitchell Marsh conceded that he’s anticipating to bat within the center order within the World Cup. Furthermore, he additionally confirmed that Travis Head is ready on the mentioned place put up Aaron Finch’s retirement whereas the opposite opener David Warner is without doubt one of the greatest ever gamers throughout all codecs for Australia. “I anticipate to bat center order. Issues might change, however Davey is actually one of many GOATs (best of all time) of one-day cricket and white-ball cricket generally.
“Now we have Travis Head and Australia’s best-ever all-three-format participant there, so I dare say I most likely will not be opening the batting,” Marsh advised AAP. Marsh opened within the India sequence earlier this yr and returned with scores of 81, 66* and 47 in three ODIs. However David Warner returns to the ODI squad now and has opened for many of his profession. The left-hander can be anticipated to open within the mega occasion and the South Africa ODI sequence as properly.
Marsh, in the meantime, is in glorious type with the bat additionally scoring quite a lot of runs at a good clip within the T20I sequence towards South Africa earlier than doing properly within the Ashes sequence towards England. “My strategy now from Check cricket to T20 cricket received’t be too dissimilar. Typically it is the state of affairs of the sport in Check cricket. There have been instances in Manchester the place I couldn’t go on the market and try to hit blokes for six and put stress again on them. I simply had to absorb deliveries. That’s the intricacies of Check cricket. However typically my strategy will not change an excessive amount of now,” Marsh added.
(With PTI inputs)
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