Marsh emphasises importance of squad depth after Australia’s dominant win over Windies

Kingston: Following a massive eight-wicket win over the West Indies at Sabina Park, Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh spoke of the importance of building squad depth given the first string of players won’t be available for every game.

 The Australian pace trio of Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins, who have racked up legendary numbers in the past decade, opted out of playing in the five-game T20I series following the 2-0 victory in the Test format in the West Indies.

The relatively inexperienced pace attack of Ben Dwarshuis and Nathan Ellis were included on the day where spinners ruled proceedings.

“We have a lot of talented players in Australia. We know those guys (Hazlewood, Starc and Cummins) won’t be able to play all three formats all the time, so it is important to build the depth. International cricket is a step up, so make them (the youngsters) feel relaxed and ease them in, which we have done in the first two games.

Marsh also applauded the duo while also tipping his hat to the spinners with Maxwell and Adam Zampa combining for five wickets on the day. IANS

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