{"id":324749,"date":"2025-12-03T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324749\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:30:29","slug":"marsh-to-make-shield-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324749\/","title":{"rendered":"MARSH TO MAKE SHIELD RETURN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Australian white ball captain Mitch Marsh is set to make his first Sheffield Shield appearance of season 2025-26, when Western Australia takes on Victoria at the MCG starting Thursday 4 December.<\/p>\n<p>Marsh played two Sheffield Shield matches for WA at the beginning of the 2024-25 season, prior to featuring in Australia\u2019s successful Border-Gavaskar Trophy campaign against India.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful right-hander has played two One-Day Cup matches for WA already this season, including the victory over Victoria at CitiPower Centre on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Marsh\u2019s inclusion offsets the loss of talented allrounder Cooper Connolly, who played a starring role with the bat in WA\u2019s most recent Sheffield Shield outing against South Australia. <\/p>\n<p>WA has otherwise named the same squad that drew with South Australia in the day-night encounter late last month. <br \/>WA Squad for the Sheffield Shield clash with Victoria: Sam Whiteman \u00a9, Cameron Bancroft, Hilton Cartwright, Brody Couch, Joel Curtis, Albert Esterhuysen, Sam Fanning, Cameron Gannon, Jayden Goodwin, Aaron Hardie, Liam Haskett, Mitchell Marsh, Corey Rocchiccioli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian white ball captain Mitch Marsh is set to make his first Sheffield Shield appearance of season 2025-26,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-324749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324749","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=324749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}