The T20 World Cup start for Australia finally struck gold in the Big Bash League in his fourth match of the season as he scored a scintillating hundred against Hobart Hurricanes at the Blundstone Arena in Hobart. The hundred came on the fifth ball of the 20th over of the Perth Scorchers innings as Marsh took only a single to complete his first century in his 11-year long career as well as the history of the league.
It never looked like it was going to be a hundred initially when he came on to bat and the way he was miscuing the shots. Batting at number three and coming on to bat in only the first over itself after the fall of the wicket of last match centurion Colin Munro, Marsh started getting into the groove but kept on losing partners at the other end.
In the 13th over, he brought out his fifty off 37 balls when the team score was 97-4. This was after the team has fallen to 75-4 and Marsh has started to build the partnership with Laurie Evans. The partnership went on for 67 runs and it came in just 45 balls. Till that time, Marsh had reached 67 off 50 balls. But it was only after that Marsh exploded and scored 33 off the next 10 balls.
Thanks to his hundred, Scorchers, who were once at 74-4, were able to get to 182-5 in the 20 overs. As far as the match is concerned, Hurricanes are 67-2, needing 116 to win from 66 balls.