{"id":335230,"date":"2025-12-08T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335230\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:14:11","slug":"mitchell-marsh-indicates-plans-to-retire-from-sheffield-shield-cricket-wont-close-door-on-test-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335230\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Marsh indicates plans to retire from Sheffield Shield cricket; won’t close door on Test career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitch Marsh<\/a> has indicated that he will retire from Sheffield Shield cricket and may not feature again this season. <\/p>\n

The 34-year-old made a surprise return to the red ball scene in a bid to keep his Ashes hopes alive, but struggled against Victoria, making two single-digit scores.<\/p>\n

The Sydney Morning Herald’s<\/a> Tom Decent is reporting that Marsh will call time on representing Western Australia in red ball cricket at the end of the season, and likely won’t play again following the return against Victoria. <\/p>\n

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Mitch Marsh celebrates a catch. \u00a0Cricket Australia via Getty Imag<\/p>\n

However, the report also suggests that Marsh won’t fully close the door on representing Australia at Test level, even without domestic red ball form.<\/p>\n

The veteran all-rounder remains the captain of both of Australia’s international white ball teams.<\/p>\n

At Test level, Marsh finds himself behind fellow West Aussie Cameron Green and Tasmanian Beau Webster in the all-rounder pecking order.<\/p>\n

And now without Sheffield Shield form to point to, it is difficult to imagine his path back to the Aussie XI. It would likely require multiple injuries to the Australian batting order between now and the Sydney Test in January.<\/p>\n

But evidently he is leaving the door ajar for the immediate future at least. <\/p>\n

Marsh has played 46 Tests for Australia between 2014 and 2024, losing his spot to Webster in January of 2025.<\/p>\n

Another factor hindering his potential Test future is that after the Ashes, Australia doesn’t play another match in the format until August, when they host Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

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Mitch Marsh bowling in 2024. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Speaking in October, coach Andrew McDonald refused to rule Marsh out of the red ball scene.<\/p>\n

“We would be comfortable picking someone, and if you want to put a name to it, Mitch Marsh, out of white-ball cricket if we felt like that was going to benefit the Test team,” McDonald said.<\/p>\n

“He’s the captain of the white-ball team. It’s very hard for him to vacate and balance out Test preparation, if he was to be in the window for that.<\/p>\n

“We still haven’t given up on Mitch Marsh’s Test career.”<\/p>\n

Chief selector George Bailey indicated in November that Marsh may have role in the Ashes summer at some point.<\/p>\n

“He’s got a game that could provide an injection, a different look at how he might attack it,” Bailey said. <\/p>\n

“It’s not the path we’re going down to start the series, but what it looks like later on, we’ll see.”<\/p>\n

Marsh has represented Western Australia in Sheffield Shield action only nine times since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch Marsh has indicated that he will retire from Sheffield Shield cricket and may not feature again this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-335230","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335230","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=335230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}