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June 2008 Archive

News from Australia's T20 v West Indies

Tue 24 June 2008

GRAY-NICOLLS cricketers Shaun Marsh (25 yo) and Luke Ronchi (27 yo) opened the batting in Australia's T20 v West Indies last weekend. The duo made an opening partnership of 57, with Shaun finishing on 29 (22 balls) and Luke on 36 (22 balls).

Luke Ronchi uses a PREDATOR MAX bat and Shaun Marsh uses a NITRO bat.

Cameron White also played in this match and scored an unbeaten 10 (6 balls) with the new COUNTY Lightning range.

Marsh - Man of the Match on debut for Australia

Wed 25 June 2008

Shaun Marsh has broken into the international ODI scene with a Man of the Match performance of 81 runs (97 balls) against the West Indies overnight, which included seven 4's and one 6. Not only did Marsh win match honours he notched up the second-highest score by an Australian on debut in a one-day international. He fell 13 short of the highest debut ODI score by an Australian, set by another potential one-day opener, Phil Jaques. Both Marsh and Jaques are using the GRAY-NICOLLS NITRO range.

The Australian cricket team also used GRAY-NICOLLS pink batting grips to recognise the recent passing of Jane McGrath.

When Matthew Hayden makes his return to Test and ODI cricket it is likely that GRAY-NICOLLS will have the two opening batsmen for both forms, as well as the very marketable Andrew Symonds in the middle order and a promising Twenty20 opening batsman / wicket-keeper Luke Ronchi, who scored the most runs in the recent Twenty20 against the West Indies.

Matthew Hayden - FUSION 2

Andrew Symonds - VIPER (ODI and Tests), PREDATOR MAX (T20)

Shaun Marsh - NITRO

Phil Jaques - NITRO

Luke Ronchi - LEGEND wicket keeping gloves, NITRO wicket keeping pads and a PREDATOR MAX bat