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Marsh ready for Australian debut

19-Jun-2008
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Twenty20 international, Barbados: West Indies v Australia Play starts 1900 BST Friday Australia will unleash uncapped opener Shaun Marsh on the West Indies attack in the first Twenty20 international to be played in the Caribbean. Marsh was one of the stars of the recent Indian Premier League, scoring 616 runs at a strike rate of 139. And the 24-year-old is set to make his Australia debut in Barbados on Friday. West Indies also have new faces in their 14-man squad in batsmen Andre Fletcher and Williams Perkins and teenage fast bowler Kemar Roach. But they will again be without skipper Chris Gayle, the only batsman to score a hundred in a Twenty20 international, who is still struggling with a groin problem. Ramnaresh Sarwan will lead the side as he did in the first two matches of the recent Test series, which Australia won 2-0.... [read full story]                    

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