{"id":100420,"date":"2021-07-15T01:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100420"},"modified":"2021-07-15T02:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:57:15","slug":"brutal-marsh-innings-covers-middle-order-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100420","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Marsh innings covers middle-order cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/mitch-marsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Mitchell Marsh\">Mitchell Marsh<\/a> has continued his fine form in the T20 series in the Caribbean, with his highest international score in the shortest format of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Marsh&#x27;s 75 from 44 balls included four fours and six sixes, and along with 53 from <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/aaron-finch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Aaron Finch\">Aaron Finch<\/a> was the backbone of Australia&#x27;s total of 6-189 in <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/live-scores\/west-indies-v-australia-west-indies-v-australia-twenty-20-series-2021\/51060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"game four of the series\">game four of the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/live-scores\/west-indies-v-australia-west-indies-v-australia-twenty-20-series-2021\/51060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"LIVE SCORES: Australia vs West Indies\"><strong>LIVE SCORES: Australia vs West Indies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of continuing concern though was yet another middle-order collapse, with Alex Carey (first ball duck), <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/moises-henriques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Moises Henriques\">Moises Henriques<\/a> (6) and Ashton Turner (6) departing in quick fashion, as Australia slipped from 1-126 in the 12th over to 6-166 in the 18th over.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Marsh and Finch, only No.7 Dan Christian (22 not out from 14) reached double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Leg-spinner Hayden Walsh once again exposed Australia&#x27;s middle order frailties against spin, picking up 3-27 off four overs, with the wickets of Finch, Carey and Turner putting the brakes on Australia&#x27;s innings.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#x27;s innings was the third time in the four match series Marsh has passed 50.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mitchell Marsh has continued his fine form in the T20 series in the Caribbean, with his highest international score in the shortest format of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100420\" title=\"Brutal Marsh innings covers middle-order cracks\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100421,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100420\/revisions\/100421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}