Australia captain Mitchell Marsh suffers testicular bleeding after training ground accident

Australia captain Mitchell Marsh was ruled out of his side’s opening match against Ireland at the Men’s T20 World Cup after suffering internal testicular bleeding in a training ground accident. Marsh, 34, was struck in the groin by a ball in training earlier this week. He did his pre-match captain’s press conference as scheduled but was not named in the team to take on Ireland on Tuesday. Steve Smith, Australia’s standby player, has been called up as cover for Marsh and is now travelling to Sri Lanka to acclimatise. A statement from Cricket Australia confirmed: “He is experiencing...