Decoding the enforcer in Mitchell Marsh
Hindustan TimesThere must be something karmic about Mitchell Marsh turning up for a World Cup semi-final at the ground his father Geoff was an intrinsic part of Australia’s first World Cup win 36 years ago. Scoring 177 off 132 balls against Bangladesh in Australia’s highest successful World Cup chase — also only the second instance of a team chasing more than 300 in this World Cup — this was a hundred unlike his previous ones, coming in circumstances deeply emotional after bidding adieu to his beloved ‘Pop’, grandfather Ross. “He sent me a message last night saying, ‘I’ll be home for a little bit and then I'm coming back to win this World Cup' so that speaks to his mindset I think,” Stoinis said later. You can’t help but appreciate the genuineness of it all, before actually starting to wonder how far Marsh is willing to push himself to walk his talk of ‘coming back to win this World Cup'.