T20 World Cup: One X-Factor player from each team

2. Mitchell Marsh (Australia) 

A career that didn’t flourish due to frequent injuries, Mitchell Marsh has always had the capability to become one of the best all-rounders Australia has ever produced. He possesses the skill set of a hard-hitting fast-bowling all-rounder, one of the toughest skills to master and achieve success in international cricket.

He has played 30 T20Is and scored 700 runs including four fifties at an average of 28 and a strike rate just over 120. He is also quite decent with the ball chipping in with 15 wickets at a bowling economy of 7.66 runs per over. Though these numbers look like those of an X-factor player, his recent form in the T20I series vs West Indies and Bangladesh was fabulous. Though Australia lost both series, Marsh always put up a fight and scored runs when most of the Australian batsmen struggled to do so. 

The team management’s move of promoting him to number 3 has paid dividends as he was Australia’s highest run-scorer in both series. His clean ball-striking especially coming at number 3 and bowling two to three overs every match makes him the player to watch out for in the Aussie camp.