LSG opener Mitchell Marsh has been in prolific form, and has found it at the very right time.
Australians don’t really need an invitation to step up ahead of big tournaments. For them, its pretty much like fish to water. And with two big tournaments on the horizon, Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh has already started to get into destruction mode.
After scoring a total of 25 runs in the first four matches of the Big Bash League (BBL) this season, Mitchell Marsh turned the tide with a spring of good performances. In the next four games, the Australian skipper has piled up 254 runs with a fifty and a hundred to his name.
His most recent knock came against the Adelaide Strikers, when the 34-year-old smashed a prolific 51-ball 88 to take the Perth Scorchers to an above-par 232/4 in the first innings. The Perth Scorchers scored 69 runs off their first four overs, as Marsh and Finn Allen went berserk.
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It was as if the Aussie skipper had a timetable made for his resurgence to form in the shortest format of the game. He scored a magnificent 102 on the same day when the Australian squad for the T20 World Cup was announced. Moreover, he has backed it up with this knock of 88.
Though the T20 World Cup 2026 stands before the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) would also be very pleased looking at the performances of the Aussie skipper. Marsh, along with Aiden Markram at the top of the order was an integral part of their plans last year, and they wish to repeat the same this year as well.
Having said that, there’s something about brute power which separates Mitchell Marsh from most of the other openers. The tall Aussie is not the most technically sound batter going around. But he can take the bowlers to the cleaners at will, and that is what the shortest format demands.
With 279 runs in eight matches till now, Mitchell Marsh is the fourth-highest run scorer in this edition of the BBL, and the highest for the Scorchers. With the T20 cricket extravaganza for a few months now, Mitchell Marsh would be locked in for heaps of runs.
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