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Mark Wood showed the havoc sheer pace could wreak and Mitchell Marsh blered to a run-a-ball 118 of brutal intensity and classical stroke-play to sketch the outlines of what could be another thriller of twing fortunes. (AP)Ashes: Mitchell Marsh ton, Mark Wood’s five-for leaves Leeds Test even after Day 1
At 85 for 4, calamity hung sinerly like the clouds over the stadium. Enter the man who would bring them light, an unlikely giver of light too. Few would have expected Mitchell Marsh to feature at Headingley, perhaps to feature at all in the series, given the investment in Cameron Green, arguably the most promising all-rounder in the world. Marsh was a back-up, no longer the bright young prospect he once was but trudging the dreary middle phase of an uneventful career, clutching onto the last straws of prospering in whites.
But fortune, often, knocks when one least expects. An injury to Green, catching apart he has been middling, made way for Marsh’s first Test in four years. The last one, mind you, had produced seven wickets. But a series of injuries and a subsequent dip in form, before the white-ball revival, stalled his progress in Test cricket. But knocks like these could furnish him a less fickle spot in the team. (READ MORE)
