Watching from the boundary’s edge in Ahmedabad final month, Australia’s gamers and workers knew they had been going to play their means within the World Cup ultimate when Mitch Marsh lined up Mohammad Shami and crunched him over lengthy off for six.
Shami had been India’s bowler of the event, however Marsh attacked him with out a second’s look after repute, seeing solely a supply that was there to be hit exhausting. Although he could be out for 15, Marsh’s boldness impressed Travis Head and firm to observe swimsuit.
Mitchell Marsh.Credit score: Getty Photos
Batting as courageously as Marsh does at No. 6 within the Take a look at workforce for Australia isn’t any straightforward factor to undergo with. For a reminder of why, spectators wanted solely glimpse the pensive look of Marsh’s father Geoff as he watched his son’s first ball from a room supplied for the gamers’ households on the MCG on day three.
Regardless of his many Take a look at matches, Marsh senior was a tightly wound bundle of nerves. Lots of them had been comprehensible given the very fact Marsh walked to the crease at an unpleasant 4-16, with the left-armer Mir Hamza on a hat-trick after swinging the brand new ball by means of David Warner, in his ultimate MCG Take a look at innings, and Head.