Australia good as it gets!

Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh will not bowl in their T20 World Cup opener against Oman on June 6 and will play only as a batter as he continues his recovery from a hamstring injury sustained during the IPL said head coach Andrew McDonald on FridayMarsh played both the World Cup warmup games against Namibia and cohosts West Indies in Trinidad scoring 18 and 4 respectivelyMarsh not bowlingBut the pacebowling allrounder did not field for the full bowling innings in either games with Matthew Wade taking over captaincy duties in his absenceldquoFor Mitch the warmup games were about ticking off where his body was atrdquo McDonald told cricketcomauAndrew McDonaldldquoHe fielded more overs tonight in the warmup against West Indies he was able to move more freely so hersquos building a little bit of confidence there It looks as though hersquos all set for the first gamerdquo he addedMarsh played just four matches for Delhi Capitals in the recently concluded IPL following a right hamstring niggle and he flew back to Australia in the last week of April to continue his recuperationldquoThe second part is just when the bowling comes back online it wonrsquot be the first gamerdquo said McDonaldDuring the second warmup game against the West Indies nineman Australia lost by 35 runs with the absence of skipper Pat Cummins Glenn Maxwell Mitchell Starc Marcus Stoinis Cameron Green and Travis Head who are yet to join the squad being felt by the KangaroosAlso ReadT20 WC Leading Wickettakers sixhitters and keepers with most dismissalsFamily time for IPL playersThe Australian players who took part in the IPL flew back home to be with their families and were exempted from the warmup fixturesldquoIt was by design in terms of when we were getting people back after the IPL we were well aware we werenrsquot going to get the squad together until the first of next monthrdquo said McDonaldldquoWersquove got some things in place where wersquoll bring the group together wersquoll work through our plans leading into Oman and therersquos a bit of space between that game and playing EnglandrdquoAustralia will play archrivals and defending T20 World Cup champions England here on June 9ldquoWe feel as though we have plenty of time to bring that group together Itrsquos a familiar group theyrsquove played a lot together If they hadnrsquot played a lot together then the prep might have looked differentrdquo the coach addedldquoWe feel comfortable though as they know how to play with each other It will just be finalising the XIs for the games and the balances that we want Wersquove got plenty of optionsrdquoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever