Shaun Marsh
Biography
Shaun Edward Marsh (born 9 July 1983 in Narrogin, Western Australia) is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Western Warriors in Australian domestic cricket and has represented Australia at One Day International and Twenty20 International levels. The left-handed opening batsman is the son of former Test cricketer Geoff Marsh.His excellent form during the 2007–08 season lead to Marsh being given a Cricket Australia Contract and being called up to the Australian Cricket tour of the West Indies.
He made his debut for Australia in June 2008 in a Twenty20 game against the West Indies alongside fellow West Australian debutant, Luke Ronchi. Opening the batting with Ronchi, they compiled an opening partnership of 57 runs from the first 6 overs, with Marsh being dismissed soon after for 29 runs from 22 balls, including 2 sixes and a four. He made a memorable One Day International debut a few days later, top scoring for the match with 81 runs from 97 balls and winning the man of the match award. With the recent retirements of two of Australia's longest-serving ODI opening batsmen in Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden, Marsh has been able to claim one of the opening batsmen positions for the 2008–09 season. In the South African tour of Australia, Marsh performed well in the opening two ODI matches, top-scoring in both matches and winning the man of the match award in the second game. He has scored more than 50 in five of his 10 matches, and scored his first century in the 5th ODI against India at Hyderabad on 5 November 2009.
Marsh was included in the Test cricket squad for Australia's tour of India in 2008, but was not selected for a match.
On 21 January 2011, in an ODI match against England at Hobart, Marsh scored his second ODI century (110) in a record ninth wicket partnership with Doug Bollinger. Australia went on to win the match by 46 runs, and Marsh was named player of the match.
In July 2011, Marsh was selected for the Australian Test Squad for the tour to Sri Lanka. Marsh made his Test cricket debut against Sri Lanka on 8 September 2011, when he became the 19th Australian to score a century on debut by scoring 141, where he shared a 258-run 4th wicket partnership aith veteran southpaw Mike Hussey (142).
Marsh was suspended for two matches by the WACA in November 2007 for breaking the team rules by drinking alcohol to excess with Luke Pomersbach.
Shaun's younger brother Mitchell, is also predicted to follow in his brother and father's footsteps and has been rookie contracted to the Western Warriors for the 2008–09 season. At the age of 16 he had already represented Western Australia at both Under-17 and Under-19 level and also broke the record for most runs in the Perth schools competition, the Darlot Cup, where he scored 739 runs at an average of 105.57.
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