Former Australian Test skipper Mark Taylor believes World Cup leader Mitch Marsh whitethorn person batted himself into Ashes contention aft his match-winning sound successful the final.
After years of being Australian cricket's whipping boy, Marsh delivered connected the biggest stage, guiding his broadside to its archetypal T20 World Cup with an unbeaten 77 disconnected 50 deliveries.
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Marsh has enjoyed the astir prolific twelvemonth of his vocation with the bat successful the T20 format, scoring implicit 600 runs astatine an mean of 36.88 and a onslaught complaint of 129.81 successful 2021.
A operation of injuries and mediocre stretches of signifier person resulted successful the 30-year-old having a stop-start planetary career, but Taylor believes his play successful the past 12 months could beryllium a motion of him being a precocious bloomer.
"What you mightiness spot from Mitch Marsh is present he's 31, he's matured and you mightiness spot a spot of a precocious bloomer," Taylor told 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio.
"Everyone assumed 10 years agone that Mitch Marsh would travel into the broadside having captained our Under-19s broadside astir 12 years agone and go a fixture ... and helium hasn't nailed it down.
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"There's inactive an accidental for him to bash that. I person nary uncertainty that connected the backmost of his show past nighttime and the mode that he's maturing each the time, that possibly his Test days aren't over.
"We've talked astir who mightiness bat No.5 for Australia successful a mates of weeks' time, I'll stake you the selectors are sitting down and talking astir Usman Khawaja and Travis Head, but Mitch Marsh is backmost successful the equation."
Taylor besides deed backmost astatine Marsh's now-famous punctuation from 2019 wherever helium claimed that Australia "hated" him.
"He's wrong, I don't deliberation Australia has hated him astatine all," helium said.
"There's nary uncertainty that Australia loves to spot our broadside and our individuals play the champion imaginable cricket and unluckily for Mitch we haven't seen that astatine Test level, truthful there's been a spot of disappointment astir his performances.
"I've known Mitch Marsh since helium was born, he's a terrific kid and conscionable hasn't performed astatine that Test lucifer level."
While England's touring enactment has been practicing unneurotic successful Australia during the T20 World Cup, Taylor believes the assurance the likes of David Warner person gained from the World Cup volition basal the location broadside successful bully stead for the Ashes series.
"I deliberation assurance is arsenic important, if not much important, than momentum," helium said.
"That triumph volition soundlessness the critics, and volition springiness radical similar David Warner [confidence] ... he's proven everyone incorrect arsenic well, he's acceptable to spell again.
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"Mitch Marsh believes he's an planetary cricketer again, adjacent Matthew Wade, who was dropped from the Australian broadside aft past summertime for the circuit that ne'er happened successful South Africa, helium present astir apt believes he's not finished anymore.
"So look out, the Australians volition beryllium afloat of confidence. They whitethorn not beryllium rather arsenic Test lucifer prepared, but they are assured now."
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