Australian opener Shaun Marsh has retired from first-class cricket. Marsh has hung up his boots after representing Western Australia for 22 years at Sheffield Shield level. Marsh retired as Western Australia's highest run-scorer across formats with 12,811 runs from 236 matches including 31 centuries.
Marsh had made his first-class debut at the age of 17. He captained Western Australia in his last Sheffield Shield match where he registered scores of 1 and 16 against South Australia.
He captained the Western Australian side in the absence of his brother Mitchell and won the title last season for the first time in his career.
He missed a few matches in the ongoing season due to injury. Western Australia have one more fixture to go in the ongoing Sheffield Shield 2022-23 and set to play the final starting on March 23.
In 2007-08, Marsh was awarded with the Laurie Sawle Medal for best male Western Australian cricketer of the season. His best knock of 214 not out in Sheffield Shield came in 2019 against Victoria.
The 39-year-old has scored 12,032 runs from 183 first-class matches at an average of 41.20 including 32 centuries and 58 half-centuries. However, in Shield Cricket, he is Western Australia's third-highest run-scorer with 8,347 runs including 20 centuries and 43 fifties.
Marsh made his international debut in 2008 after a successful maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) season for Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings). He also won the orange cap after playing a huge role in the Punjab-based franchises’ playoffs qualification.
He earned his baggy green much later in 2011. He scored 2,265 runs from 38 Tests at an average of 34.41 including six centuries and 10 half-centuries.
In ODIs, he has scored 2,773 runs from 72 innings at an average of 40.77 including seven centuries and 15 fifties. He played his last ODI in 2019. An injury in the nets led him to getting ruled out ODI World Cup 2019 in England.
In the 15 T20Is, he could not score a single half-century. However, he is Australia's seventh-highest run-scorer in T20 cricket (including T20Is, domestic T20s and franchise cricket) with 6,869 runs from 210 matches at an average of 37.74 including two centuries and 54 half-centuries.
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