{"id":200920,"date":"2025-10-09T17:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200920\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:35:10","slug":"marnus-labuschagne-boosts-ashes-hopes-with-one-day-cup-century-for-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200920\/","title":{"rendered":"Marnus Labuschagne boosts Ashes hopes with One-Day Cup century for Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Marnus Labuschagne&#8217;s case for a men&#8217;s Ashes call-up continues to build after he scored a second century in the space of a week and third of the domestic summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Labuschagne cracked 105 off 91 deliveries to lead Queensland to 311 in its One-Day Cup match with Tasmania at Allan Border Field on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It came just days after he scored 160 off 206 balls in Queensland&#8217;s Sheffield Shield draw with Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Labuschagne made 130 (118) in the Bulls&#8217; One-Day Cup opener against Victoria last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is competing with the likes of Sam Konstas, Cameron Bancroft, Marcus Harris, Nathan McSweeney, Jake Weatherald and Matt Renshaw to partner Usman Khawaja as opener for the five-Test series against England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-10-08\/sheffield-shield-round-one-quick-hits-labuschagne-century\/105861198\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labuschagne scores big as other Test hopefuls flounder in Shield openers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The Sheffield Shield is underway, with all eyes on the contenders for Australia&#8217;s problematic opener spot. Here are five quick hits from the opening round of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">There is also the option of Labuschagne returning to his preferred number three position if selectors opt not to pick all-rounder Beau Webster, who is battling an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Labuschagne cracked eight fours and two sixes in his sparkling one-day innings against Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 31-year-old was dropped on 91 when spinner Nikhil Chaudhary could not hold on to a sizzling return chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Labuschagne hit Chaudhary for four behind point to bring up his ton off 89 balls, but he was out a short time later when he edged the India-born spinner behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The exit of Labuschagne sparked a collapse of 7-70 as Queensland went from 3-241 in the 36th over to be all out for 311 in 45.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Matt Renshaw, who got called up ahead of Labuschagne for the upcoming ODI series against India, scored 38 off 35 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Labuschagne&#8217;s most recent Test century came against England in 2023, with a lean run of form since resulting in his axing for the 3-0 series win over West Indies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The first men&#8217;s Ashes Test will be played in Perth, beginning on November 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marnus Labuschagne&#8217;s case for a men&#8217;s Ashes call-up continues to build after he scored a second century in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13285,64,63,31316,1208,46853,116222,701,85,2801],"class_list":["post-200920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ashes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-century","tag-england","tag-marnus-labuschagne","tag-one-day-cup","tag-queensland","tag-sports","tag-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}