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    "title": "If You Want To Hit Your First Ball For Six, Then I Want You To Do It: Marsh On Cummins\u2019s Message Before Turnaround",
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    "excerpt": "The Sydney Morning Herald: Australia\u2019s fast-bowling all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has revealed that before the third Ashes Test at Headingley, captain Pat Cummins urged him to hit his first ball with the bat for a six if he wishes to do so.\n\n",
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    "editor1": "The Sydney Morning Herald: Australia\u2019s fast-bowling all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has revealed that before the third Ashes Test at Headingley, captain Pat Cummins urged him to hit his first ball with the bat for a six if he wishes to do so.\n\n<p>In that game, Marsh made a run-a-ball 118 on his Test recall after nearly four years. \u201cHe said to me, \u2018If you want to go and hit your first ball for six, and you\u2019re feeling it, I want you to do it\u2019. Ultimately, I\u2019m probably not going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cAlthough I\u2019d love to be able to say after I finished playing that I hit my first ball for six in a Test match. But I guess that\u2019s the reason I\u2019m picked. I do play reasonably attacking these days, and Patty sees that as a strength of mine. He just wants me to go out there and enjoy it and have fun,\u201d Marsh was quoted as saying by The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The all-rounder is now in Australia\u2019s squad for the first Test against Pakistan, starting from December 14 at the Optus Stadium. Marsh was also in praise of Cummins the leader, who\u2019s won this year\u2019s World Test Championship final, Men\u2019s ODI World Cup and retained the Ashes in England.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a very close mate of mine, but he\u2019s also a great leader within that group. And when you\u2019re leader\u2019s instilling that sort of confidence in you, it allows you to go out there and be a bit freer and enjoy being part of a team and contributing to wins,\u201d he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Marsh has played a lot of BBL games at the venue for Perth Scorchers, but he is now on the verge of playing a Test in the 60,000-seater stadium for the first time, especially on a drop-in pitch. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing. West Australian fans have always been incredible to play in front of, and when the Scorchers play there, it certainly has a different feel to it. We\u2019ve managed to pack out that stadium a couple of times over the last few years, and it\u2019s always an incredible experience,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\r\n\r\n",
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