“You beauty!” It did not require sophisticated lip-reading skills to understand Shaun Marsh when charging down the pitch in response to reaching three figures. Simple words from a straightforward character, coated with very real emotion from the most maligned player of his generation.
Marsh’s inclusion in this side could never be divorced from the fact that it is his eighth chance to prevail in the baggy green across seven years. But that charmed run looked to be over after Australia’s tour of India in March. Then, he lost both his place and national contract before the return trip to the subcontinent in August for a tour of Bangladesh.
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