In this line of work, there are players who come around that you feel more emotionally invested in than others – it’s human nature for this to be so. For me, one of those is Mitch Marsh.
But the difference with the big, smiley all-rounder is that this is seemingly the case for everybody who has ever had anything to do with him. Viewers of The Test documentary Amazon made about the Australian team would have left with a sense of this: he’s cherished by his teammates.
It’s always made it difficult to square the contempt he’s been held in from a great many members of the public-at-large, pri...