WATCH: Shaun Marsh and Marcus Stoinis get brutally hit as play gets abandoned at the MCG

Dixit Bhargav | 07/12/2019
WATCH: Shaun Marsh and Marcus Stoinis get brutally hit as play gets abandoned at the MCG

Shaun Marsh and Marcus Stoinis get brutally hit: The ‘dangerous’ MCG pitch made batting extremely hard against fast bowlers.

During the 16th match of the ongoing season of Marsh Shield between Victoria and Western Australia in Melbourne, Western Australia batsmen got hit not once but on numerous occasions due to a “dangerous” MCG pitch.

After Victoria captain Peter Handscomb won the toss and invited the visitors to bat, Victoria’s bowling received uneven bounce to make batting hard for the opposition batsmen.

Coming in to bat at No. 3 in the 11th over, Marsh got hit after good length deliveries bounced out of nowhere to hit the batsman on the body.

Much like Marsh, all-rounder Marcus Stoinis also coped some serious blows after getting hit by the likes of Peter Siddle and Andrew Fekete. Having hit on the shoulder initially, things were taken seriously after Fekete hit Stoinis in the ribs.

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It was at this point in time that the play on Day 1 was eventually called-off with umpiring conducting a conversation with Handscomb and Western Australia captain Shaun Marsh.

It is worth mentioning that the officials are planning to start the match tomorrow at normal time. However, how well the pitch will behave on Sunday remains to be seen. The ground staff was seen rolling the pitch for nearly an hour after the play was abandoned on the first day.

At stumps, Western Australia were 89/3 in 39.4 overs. Stoinis (2 not out) and Cameron Green (7 not out) will resume proceedings for the visitors tomorrow.

Shaun Marsh and Marcus Stoinis get brutally hit

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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