Mitch Marsh

[sayon basak]

Marsh likely ends his career with batting stats of- 80 INN @ 28.58.
Bowling average of 51 wickets @ 40, from 74 innings

this is atleast twice too many Tests given. what a gift from AUS selectors to the opposition..

One of the worst all rounders, in the history of this sport, to play more than 40 test matches surely.

Moeen Ali has a good argument too.

 

[Spark]

Going into the series, these were the batting averages for the top 7 in the previous twelve months (McSweeney/Konstas obviously hadn't played at all yet):

Marsh 45.45
Khawaja 34.38
Carey 33.00
Smith 33.18
Labuschagne 27.08
Head 22.41

Now I still had basically no faith in him coming into this series and I always expected the bubble to pop (I wouldn't have recalled him when they did tbh), and I said so multiple times, but when someone's been your best bat for a year - probably the only one even at par output, bar maybe Carey - then they probably do deserve a little bit of a run. Even if they aren't bowling.

He absolutely shouldn't have played in Melbourne but I can see why he'd earned a bit of rope up until then.

To be fair the reason I wanted him dropped earlier wasn't actually performance related - it's that he was very obviously not fit, and the team management's claims otherwise were (and are) wholly unconvincing.

 

[halba]

mitch marshs career has ended at Test level with todays sacking.

hes had 20 tests too many. completely poor.