Australia chief selector George Bailey has stated that Mitchell Marsh’s World Cup heroics or for that matter his tremendous form in the shortest format of the game, will hold no importance as far as the Ashes selection is concerned.
Bailey, once a T20I captain for Australia himself has stressed that the two formats are as different as they could be and they are ‘they're different sports in many respects.’
"They're (T20s and Tests) about as far removed, we joke internally that they're different sports in many respects," Bailey told SEN's Dwayne's World on Monday.
He argued that winning the T20 World Cup does not give Australia any sort of advantage in the upcoming Ashes and there is enough time to deliberate on the same.
"I think it's really important that we celebrate the tournament and the role he's played in that team, and celebrate the fact that he's an Australian hero for a day and he's very much a catalyst behind us holding the trophy above our heads.” Bailey praised Marsh for him tremendous knock in the T20 WC final.
Despite shunning him for the Ashes spot, Bailey levelled the playing field saying that Marsh can make a comeback into the Test and he hopes that Marsh will enjoy the best form of his life in the coming years.
"What I can say about Mitch is that we have full confidence that the next two, three and hopefully four years are going to be the best cricketing years of his career, so hopefully we get to see him playing all three formats for Australia."
Mitchell Marsh's last big score came in the Test format back in early 2018 when he scored 101 and 96 in back to back matches across two different series against England and Australia. He has not been in the Test XI since September 2019.