shaun marsh

Pro sport is the family business for cricketer Shaun Marsh. He represents Australia in all three forms of the game and plays for the Western Australia team in Australian domestic cricket. Marsh is a left-handed top-order batsman known as SOS, which stands for “Son of Swampy”. “Swampy” was the nickname of his father, Robert Marsh, a former Australian cricketer, coach, and selector. His brother Mitchell and sister Melissa are a cricketer and a basketball player, respectively.

Marsh has thrived in the Twenty20 version of cricket, scoring five half-centuries in nine innings in the 2012–13 Big Bash League, where he finished as the tournament’s leading run scorer and helped the Scorchers reach the final. When he returned to the Western Australian state squad, Marsh hit 155 not out in the one-day game against Queensland and followed it up with 84 in the second innings of a come-from-behind triumph at the Gabba. In 2016, Marsh was recalled as Australia’s first choice opening batter in the final Test of their tour of Sri Lanka after three years on the sidelines. The Australian batsmen had struggled in the Sri Lankan conditions during the three-Test series, which Australia lost 3–0, but Marsh showed promise in his return innings, scoring a century (130).

Marsh started the first home Test of the 2016–17 Australian summer against South Africa before breaking his finger and missing the remainder of the series. Cricket Australia awarded him a national contract for the 2018–19 season in April 2018. Marsh signed with Welsh side Glamorgan in 2019 ahead of the English County Championship. He got his 30th first-class century in October 2020, during the third round of matches in the 2020–21 Sheffield Shield season.