Australia's Mitchell Marsh on his 177 in their ICC Cricket World Cup win over Bangladesh
Australia's Mitchell Marsh on his 177 in their ICC Cricket World Cup win over Bangladesh
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00:00 Mitch, just comparing your century earlier in the tournament where you looked really
00:05 fired up when you got there and compared to today, a bit more low key, just fair to say
00:11 the emotions were slightly different?
00:13 It's always a great honour to score 100 but I was pretty cooked to be honest, I was just
00:20 starting to cramp at that stage so I was trying to keep my heart rate low and not exert too
00:25 much energy so this one meant just as much as any other 100 that I've ever made.
00:37 As individually and as a group, what you guys set out to achieve today on the field, how
00:41 it transpired actually, what you wanted to do today considering you're already in the
00:45 semi finals and what transpired on the field vis-a-vis that, whatever you wanted to achieve?
00:53 We wanted to win the match, although we qualified for the semis before the game, it's a World
00:59 Cup game, it's another game for our country and I guess it's all about keeping the standards
01:04 high and coming away with a win so yeah, very happy.
01:09 Mitchell, we saw your second century of this World Cup, how do you feel about that and
01:14 how the way you batted and you get full confidence before the semi finals, how do you feel about
01:19 that?
01:20 Yeah, it's great to be able to score 100 in a winning team, I started at -50 after
01:26 my bowling so I had to get a few back but yeah, as I said before, any time you score
01:34 100 for Australia it's always a great feeling and we're obviously really excited about what
01:39 lies ahead for us.
01:40 With these results, I think most probably Australia will meet South Africa in the semi
01:46 finals, how do you feel about that before the most confident team before the semi finals,
01:50 I think Australia consider your team performance?
01:54 Yeah, we're really excited, the semi finals, I think you look back to the start of the
02:00 World Cup and a 9-1-day game seems like a long way away and with the amount of improvement
02:07 with all cricket teams around the world there's been not one easy game so to get to the semi
02:12 finals is great but yeah, we're very excited about what lies ahead and the challenge that's
02:18 ahead of us.
02:19 Mitch, New Zealand almost chased down 389 against you, Afghanistan almost scored 300,
02:28 Bangladesh scored 300 today, do you think Australia as a bowling group have been a bit
02:34 off colour or do you consider it as normal considering the pitches in this World Cup?
02:39 Oh, there's probably a number of things that comes down to, there's been some really
02:45 fat wickets and some small grounds, I didn't realise how small this one was even though
02:50 I played here a little bit.
02:52 There's a lot of good teams out there, a lot of teams have chased down big totals so
02:58 I think it's about having the mentality to keep taking wickets but understanding that
03:03 when guys get on top that's going to happen at this level and whatever's put in front
03:08 of us we try and chase it down.
03:12 Mitch, considering that it was a day game under hot sun and non-India game also rather
03:20 inconsequential game, how do you look at the crowd support and the atmosphere?
03:26 Yeah I think our crowds especially have been great the whole tournament, I'm not sure they
03:31 actually come to watch us, it's either Davey Warner or Glenn Maxwell so yeah you sort of
03:36 feel a little bit left out but we've been lucky, we've had great crowds.
03:41 When we're not playing against India I feel like Australia always has really good support
03:44 over here and the fans are just amazing so we feel very lucky.
03:49 In Pune in particular?
03:50 Yeah I thought, I think this is Steve Smith's favourite ground in India, he says that regularly,
03:57 he loves batting here so yeah we love coming here to play.