- Saiman Das
Marnus Labuschagne Priceless Reply: Australia’s Test specialist Marnus Labuschagne has been one of the finest batters for the Australian national cricket team in the longest format of the game.
Whenever the team needs someone to take the game away from the opposition, Marnus literally knows how to take things forward in red-ball cricket.
Notably, Australia largely benefitted from his services ever since he made his Test debut. There was no stopping since then as he remained consistent in his career.
He has played 37 Tests wherein he scored 3394 runs at a healthy batting average of 57.53. Marnus Labuschagne smashed as many as ten centuries, 15 half-centuries, and two double centuries to his name.
On the other hand, he is yet to up the ante as far as white-ball cricket is concerned. He played 30 ODIs and 1 T20I for Australia where he scored 847 and 2 runs respectively.
Marnus scored 1 century and 6 half-centuries in ODIs. He plays domestically for Queensland. Apart from that, he also represents Glamorgan in county cricket and for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League.
Australian cricketer Marnus is quite active on social media portals. Every now and then, he comes up with posts to interact with his fans and followers.
Usually, he shares some pretty nice things on social media. Meanwhile, Marnus Labuschagne hogged the limelight when he came up with a priceless response when the fans asked him to describe Rohit Sharma in one word.
“One word about Rohit Sharma?” asked the fan. In reply, Marnus Labuschagne wrote: “more than 1 word, but watching him bat is easy on the eye – smooth bat swing.”
Meanwhile, another fan asked the Australian batsman to pick one from the ‘Fab 4’ as his batting partner excluding Steve Smith. This question caught the attention of Marnus.
“If you get a chance to bat with one of the fab 4 excluding smudge, who would that be?” asked the fan. Marnus Labuschagne replied, “has to be @imVkohli, we’d run heaps of 2s.
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and other stars will be seen in action for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League. The IPL 2023 begins on March 31, Friday as Chennai Super Kings will take on Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad.
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