Shaun Marsh, a veteran batter, has announced his retirement from first-class and ODI cricket after playing for Western Australia for 22 years. Marsh, who made his first-class debut in 2001 at the age of 17, led his team to victory in the prestigious Sheffield Shield competition in 2022 while captaining in the absence of his brother, Mitchell Marsh.
Marsh played 177 List-A matches and scored 7158 runs at an average of 44.45. He won multiple trophies for Western Australia during his illustrious career and was considered a legend of the game. In his Australia career, Marsh played in 38 Test matches and scored 2265 runs at an average of 34.31. He made his red-ball debut against Sri Lanka in September 2011 and played his last match against India in the Australian summer of 2019. Marsh is also on the elite list of players who made a century on their Test debut.
Marsh is Western Australia's all-time, all-format leading runs scorer with 12,811 runs to his name, surpassing his former coach Justin Langer's 12,780 runs. Injuries have been a consistent part of his career, and he could only play one match in the Sheffield Shield this season due to multiple injuries. Despite being in the squad for the 2019 World Cup, he was ruled out after sustaining a fractured arm. Marsh's retirement from cricket marks the end of an era and cements his legacy as a legend of Australian cricket.
