{"id":364607,"date":"2024-02-01T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=364607"},"modified":"2024-02-01T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T21:04:53","slug":"marsh-details-dad-geoffs-hilarious-ab-medal-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=364607","title":{"rendered":"Marsh details dad Geoff's hilarious AB Medal snub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even if you've been awarded cricket's highest honour in the form of the Allan Border Medal<\/a>, your dad will always be around to keep you humble.<\/p>\n

Well, at least that's the case for the newly-crowned winner Mitch Marsh.\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n

The 32-year-old's dad and former Australian cricketer Geoff Marsh didn't even pick up the phone when his beaming son rang him up to let him know of his exciting win<\/a> at the Australian Cricket Awards on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

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"I called him (when I won), he was in a pool comp, at the pub. So he had to call me back, actually," Marsh said in Melbourne on Thursday.<\/p>\n

However, the hilarious snub from his own dad didn't stop Marsh from reflecting\ufeff emotionally on his growth over the past 12 months, that led to his triumphant Allan Border Medal win over captain Pat Cummins and Steve Smith.<\/p>\n

\"Marsh\"<\/p>\n

"One of the things Ronnie (Andrew McDonald) said to me was 'we can't win the World Cup without you', as I'd just been left out of the team," Marsh said.<\/p>\n

"At the time I was like 'oh, yeah, whatever', but it's those little comments that build up over a period of time where \ufeffyou start believing that."<\/p>\n

Marsh and Australia went on to win that very World Cup over host nation India\ufeff, with the 32-year-old reflecting on how he felt the nation used to "hate" him.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffYou take it all in, you certainly appreciate all of it," Marsh said.<\/p>\n

\"Cummins<\/p>\n

Marsh returned to the Test side during the Ashes and scored a brilliant century at Headingley\ufeff, cementing himself as the side's first-choice all-rounder.<\/p>\n

He also became a captain of the T20 team for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n

"It's been an incredible six months and you definitely want more of that."<\/p>\n

Australia will complete their white-ball commitments against the Windies over the coming weeks, beginning on Friday at the MCg with their first T20 match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even if you've been awarded cricket's highest honour in the form of the Allan Border Medal, your dad will always be around to keep you […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364609,"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\/364607"}],"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=364607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364612,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364607\/revisions\/364612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/364609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}