\u201cObviously not having guys like Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood is a big blow for us,\u201d player of the match Ellis told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like to be called the leader of the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am just happy being out here playing a World Cup and representing Australia. Glad we started off the competition well and looking forward to a good tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ellis ripped through Ireland\u2019s top order with two wickets in his first over and they were soon 27-4.<\/p>\n
A 46-run sixth wicket stand between Lorcan Tucker and George Dockrell offered some resistance but they were never in the hunt in the face of some disciplined bowling.<\/p>\n
Dockerell scored 41 off 29 balls before being stumped off Zampa.<\/p>\n
Marsh was ruled out before the match after being struck in the groin during training on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Australia were quick to call up Steve Smith, who will fly to Sri Lanka on standby in case opener Marsh is unable to take any part in the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cMitchell Marsh will miss the opening match of the ICC men\u2019s T20 World Cup after sustaining a direct blow to the groin during training earlier this week,\u201d said Cricket Australia in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is experiencing ongoing pain and discomfort which is restricting his movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cScans have confirmed internal testicular bleeding and he will require a period of rest and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis return to play will be guided by symptom resolution and medical advice.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is the latest injury blow to hit the Australia squad after leading pace bowlers Cummins and Hazlewood were forced out after failing to recover from injury in time for the month-long tournament.<\/p>\n
The in-form Smith, Australia\u2019s best player against spin, was controversially omitted from the original squad despite his blistering Big Bash League form this year as an opening batsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cObviously not having guys like Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood is a big blow for us,\u201d player of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[156759,74,85,1135,28405,26862,13381,39919,2037,10542,119486,41309,15258,8019,2225,83587,5430,111,139,69,10521,3111,1523,156758,213,67648,156757,165,1680,102,377],"class_list":["post-279346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-67run","tag-after","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-bleeding","tag-blow","tag-captain","tag-colombo","tag-cruise","tag-cup","tag-depleted","tag-dominant","tag-injury","tag-ireland","tag-loss","tag-marsh","tag-mitchell","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opening","tag-out","tag-over","tag-shrugged","tag-sports","tag-t20","tag-testicular","tag-their","tag-wednesday","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}