Australia’s T20I skipper Mitchell Marsh has confirmed that he and Travis Head will form the team’s opening partnership heading into next year’s T20 World Cup. With the tournament scheduled to be held in India and Sri Lanka, Australia is working on locking in their best XI, and the top-order slot now seems settled.
After David Warner’s retirement, the selectors have experimented with various options at the top, including Matthew Short, Jake Fraser-McGurk, and more recently Glenn Maxwell. However, it’s now clear that Marsh and Head will be given the responsibility of opening the innings.
The duo will debut as an opening pair in the T20I format during the upcoming three-match series against South Africa, part of a six-match white-ball tour hosted by Australia.
Marsh confirms Australia’s opening pair
“For now, Heady and I will be opening,” Marsh said ahead of the series opener in Darwin on Sunday, 10 August. “We’ve played a lot of cricket together, have a strong partnership, and it makes sense to start with that.”
While this will be their first time opening together in T20Is, Head and Marsh have already shown strong chemistry at the top in ODIs, putting together 282 runs in five innings at an average of 70.50. Overall, their partnerships across formats have yielded 504 runs from 14 innings, including one century stand and three fifties.
Given their track record in 50-over cricket, the Head-Marsh pair is expected to give fruitful results.
Australia’s T20I squad vs South Africa:
Mitchell Marsh (c), Sean Abbott, Tim David, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matt Kuhnemann, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Owen, Matthew Short, Adam Zampa.
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