WATCH: Mitchell Marsh jokes how his Jasprit Bumrah nightmare continued in backyard with 4 y.o. nephew’s ‘Boom action’ | Cricket News
Mitchell Marsh was not a medal recipient at the 2025 Australian Cricket Awards but the 33-year-old Aussie walked away after delivering some cracking one-liners on Monday night and shed some light on his Jasprit Bumrah’ed summer.
Marsh, last year’s Allan Border medall, had a horrendous Border-Gavaskar Trophy campaign at home against India before being dropped for the final Test of the series earlier this month in Sydney. Marsh’s humour, however, remains intact.
When asked about his 2024 season at the awards, a cheeky Marsh replied: “It’s been incredible, really … capped off the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and the way the boys played especially with 10 players, without me. They did really well.”
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After a summer of facing Bumrah’s searing spells, Marsh admitted he missed out on a relatively subtler tour to Sri Lanka. “Yeah look, if there’s one wicket I needed, it was probably that Galle wicket.”
“The nightmare continued”
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But the show-stopper was when Marsh shed light on his on-field horrors spilling over to the backyard with his young nephew stunning the sturdy “Bison” with a Bumrah action.
“Actually my little nephew Ted, he’s four years old, we played backyard cricket the other day. He came in with (Jasprit) Bumrah’s action, and the nightmare continued!” Marsh quipped.
Having won the Allan Border medal for the best Australian cricketer last year, Marsh said he had felt and the appreciation up until last month before things went downhill.
“Yeah, prior to December I felt a lot of love. Post-December, bit of a different story,” Marsh added. Story continues below this ad
Marsh mustered 73 runs in seven innings with six successive single-digit scores and three wickets in the series against India. His last appearance was a Big Bash League fixture for the Perth Scorches, where he bagged a duck on January 7.
