Australia's bright young cricketers - Mitchell Marsh
The brother of Australian One Day International opener, Shaun Marsh and son of former Australian opener and coach, Geoff Marsh, Mitchell Marsh is forging his own sparkling cricketing career. The 18 year old has impressed on the state scene recently for Western Australia, and was captain of the triumphant Australian U19 squad that won the U19 World Cup yesterday in New Zealand.
He had a fairly mediocre time of it over in New Zealand, scoring only just over 200 runs at an average of 33. By the standards he has set so far, that’s quite poor. He did though play very important innings in the quarter and semi final to really give the Australians a hope of winning. He didn’t bowl throughout the tournament which surprised me. He can generate quite a bit of pace for an 18 year old. The main satisfaction for him would have been leading the side to the world Cup win, showing that he may well have the credentials to one day lead his country at senior level.
Unfortunately for this potentially very good all-rounder for Australia, he has become slightly overrated, not because of his ability. For some reason, the Australian media has a culture of bombarding talented young Australian cricketers with unneeded headlines. They promoted the likes of Phillip Hughes and Dave Warner to this unnecessary stardom, and look what happened to them. Marsh so far has coped with all this unwanted pressure, and has turned a few heads as well.
On Sheffield Shield debut whilst still at the age of 17, Marsh top scored with 59 not out from just 70 balls against a New South Wales attack featuring the likes of Doug Bollinger, Stuart Clark and so called wonder spinner Steve Smith. Then 2 months later he took 4/6 against the Blues in a T20 game at the WACA. He surprised many including myself with the amount of pace he generated, easily clocking mid 130’s. Marsh has been the find of the domestic season so far. On One Day domestic debut, he became the youngest ever player to play in Australian One Day Domestic cricket, and the youngest Western Australian debutant in more than 70 years.
The kid has a massive future no doubt, but l’m worried that he may become a Dave Warner in Australian Cricket, a thing of the past if he doesn’t keep continuing to develop and play well in all forms of the game. One thing he does have in his favour is youth; Warner is already 23 and can hardly make the Sheffield Shield side for the Blues, where Marsh will fit straight back into the WA side in both forms of the game. Happily, he has a great support group behind him, and very experienced father and brother who he can pick their brains for more knowledge.
Mitchell Marsh stats
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/272450.html
Mitch is a great player and i hope that u can help get this message out and someday he will captain Australia 
