{"id":420070,"date":"2026-02-11T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:59:13","slug":"mitchell-marsh-australia-captain-misses-t20-world-cup-opener-with-testicular-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420070\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Marsh: Australia captain misses T20 World Cup opener with &#8216;testicular bleeding&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Marsh was appointed Australia&#8217;s T20 captain April 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored 2,102 runs in 78 T20 internationals for Australia at an average of 32.33 and taken 17 wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Travis Head stood in as captain for the Group B fixture against Ireland in Marsh&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c801n1gzvrdo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missed out on Australia&#8217;s squad<\/a> for the World Cup despite impressive form in the Big Bash League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old batter will now travel to to Australia as cover should Marsh not be fit enough to feature in the remainder of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith has scored 1,094 runs in 55 T20 innings for the Aussies at an average of 24.86, but last played a match in the format for Australia since February 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia face Zimbabwe at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-rounder Marsh was appointed Australia&#8217;s T20 captain April 2024. He has scored 2,102 runs in 78 T20 internationals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-420070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}