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October 13, 2011
Cricket Australia has named allrounder Mitchell Marsh as a replacement for Brett Lee in Australia's ODI squad for the series against South Africa. Marsh is a part of Australia's Twenty20 squad in South Africa and will remain with the team for the one-day leg of the tour, as Lee underwent a surgery for appendicitis on Monday that ruled him out of the tour's limited-overs games.
One day squad, even without Lee, there are four fast bowlers, so that the President of selectors Andrew Hilditch said it was not necessary to choose another quickly. "One day the team has four specialist bowlers in quick Doug Bollinger, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson and Patrick Cummins, a national selection committee did not consider it necessary to replace Brett with a specialist bowler fast.
"Mitchell was very close to the selection in the squad a day as originally selected. He played extremely well in the recent tour of Australia to Zimbabwe and is a pace bowler who has the ability to bat bat in the first six, which gives good balance and flexibility of the team. "
Marsh collected 12 wickets in six matches on tour in Australia, and has contributed with the bat and a dayers. List of 19 matches, 13 wickets was made at 25.00 each, and four half-century, the highest score in 92
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