{"id":337317,"date":"2023-10-08T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=337317"},"modified":"2023-10-08T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:00:24","slug":"marshs-really-costly-world-cup-blunder-duds-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=337317","title":{"rendered":"Marsh&#039;s &#039;really costly&#039; World Cup blunder duds Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli inspired India&#x27;s recovery from 3\/2 in its reply to Australia&#x27;s below-par 199 to secure a six-wicket win for the host nation in its opening match at the Cricket World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kohli&#x27;s innings could&#x27;ve been over early after Mitchell Marsh dropped him on 12, which Australian captain Pat Cummins described as &quot;not ideal&quot; post-game. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Kohli hit 85 off 116 balls and delivered a calmly constructed fourth-wicket stand of 165 with KL Rahul (97 not out) as India reached 4\/201 with 52 balls to spare in front of a passionate home crowd in Chennai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/world-cup-2023-marnus-labuschagne-review-australia-india-mark-taylor-comments\/c20269f9-3623-4304-8eac-dd96ac6ffad1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Tubby &#x27;surprised&#x27; by bizarre Marnus decision\ufeff\"><strong>Tubby &#x27;surprised&#x27; by bizarre Marnus decision\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/athletics\/chicago-marathon-2023-kelvin-kiptum-world-record-time-eliud-kipchoge\/52874ba0-9c65-4041-b40d-2b58d51ee88f\" title=\"&#x27;Absolutely insane&#x27; run shatters marathon world record\ufeff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Absolutely insane&#x27; run shatters marathon world record\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/bathurst-1000-news-2023-richie-stanaway-wins-talks-redemption-retirement-greg-murphy-shane-van-gisbergen\/26e5d064-f68a-482b-b1de-b219e9f7f2cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Bathurst winner&#x27;s resurgence from &#x27;sad state of affairs&#x27;\ufeff\"><strong>Bathurst winner&#x27;s resurgence from &#x27;sad state of affairs&#x27;\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia had taken three wickets in the first two overs to leave India in a perilous position and it could&#x27;ve easily been 4\/20 in the eighth over.<\/p>\n<p>With Josh Hazlewood bowling a short ball, Kohli got his timing all wrong and skied the delivery. Marsh and Alex Carey both ran towards the ball, with Marsh the first there but the all-rounder ultimately dropping it by hardly getting a hand to it.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"13c264bc-cc54-43ef-8264-44ce228c2c79\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/13c264bc-cc54-43ef-8264-44ce228c2c79\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1259\" data-height=\"708\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There was a turning point, there can be only one turning point and this came very early,&quot; Indian legend Ravi Shastri said in commentary.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Score on 20, Mitchell Marsh not getting his fingers anywhere near the ball, I think distracted with Alex Carey coming in towards him and it turned out to be a real costly miss from Australia&#x27;s point of view.&quot;\ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Kohli and Rahul weren&#x27;t fazed by it, though, rescuing India&#x27;s innings.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>After winning the toss, Australia \u2014 a five-time world champion \u2014 slumped after being 1\/74 in the 17th over. Steve Smith was the top scorer with 46.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"171faa69-867c-421b-bca5-a8e34442345d\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/171faa69-867c-421b-bca5-a8e34442345d\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"739\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 2\/110, the Aussies lost 5\/30 \ufeffdue to Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav&#x27;s magic with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Starc added 28 valuable lower-order runs to help Australia reach 199, but in the end it made little difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch every Australian Cricket World Cup match and other headline games live and free on Channel Nine and<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.9now.com.au\/r8XctXoLDDb\"><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Post-game, Cummins joked about Marsh&#x27;s dropped catch but admitted dropping a player of Kohli&#x27;s calibre wasn&#x27;t a good result.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve already forgotten about it,&quot; he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Not ideal, especially someone of his calibre, it happens, 4\/10 would&#x27;ve been a dream start, but not to be.&quot;\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Virat Kohli inspired India&#x27;s recovery from 3\/2 in its reply to Australia&#x27;s below-par 199 to secure a six-wicket win for the host nation in its <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=337317\" title=\"Marsh&#039;s &#039;really costly&#039; World Cup blunder duds Aussies\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337319,"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\/337317"}],"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=337317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337322,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337317\/revisions\/337322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/337319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}