T20 World Cup 2026: Mitchell Marsh scored his first half-century against Sri Lanka

Updated: 16-02-2026, 03.41 PM

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In the 30th match of T-20 World Cup 2026, Australia cricket team captain Mitchell Marsh played an inning of 54 runs in the match against Sri Lanka cricket team. This was his 12th half-century in T20 International career and third half century in T20 World Cup. Meanwhile, he also made a century partnership with Travis Head (56). In the match, Australia, playing first, scored 181 runs after losing all the wickets. Let’s take a look at Marsh’s statistics.

Marsh’s innings was strong

Australian captain Marsh looked in good form. He hit 5 consecutive fours in the over of Mahesh Teekshana who came to bowl the sixth over of the innings. Batting in his familiar style, he completed his half-century in 25 balls. He was out after scoring 54 runs in 27 balls with a strike rate of 200. In his innings he hit 8 fours and 2 sixes. His innings was ended by Dushan Hemantha.

Marsh made a century partnership with Head

This is only the second such occasion when both Australia’s opening batsmen played innings of 50+ runs. Before this, the pair of David Warner and Shane Watson had achieved this feat twice (in 2010 and 2012). Marsh along with Head made a partnership of 104 runs for the first wicket. With this, this T20 World Cup proved to be the 5th century partnership for Australia.

Marsh scored his first half-century against Sri Lanka

Marsh has played 5 T20s against Sri Lanka so far, scoring 82 runs in 3 innings at an average of 27.33 and a strike rate of 160.78. He scored his first half-century against this team.