Marcus Sinclair Harris is an Australian cricketer who was born on July 21, 1992. He has played for Australia in Test cricket. Harris hits first with his left hand and plays local cricket for both Victoria and Gloucestershire. He played his first Test match for the Australia cricket team against India in December 2018.
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Cricket career of Marcus Harris:
Marcus Harris for Western Australia
In the summer of 2010–11, Harris started playing first-class cricket for Western Australia. In his third match, against Queensland, he made 157, which was his first century in a first-class game. This made him the youngest Australian to get a first-class score of 150, breaking a record set by Clem Hill 115 years earlier. Harris played for Western Australia on and off for the next six years. In the 2014–15 Sheffield Shield final, he scored 81 and 158 runs in his two innings and was named man of the match.
Harris played in more than 40 Sheffield Shield games for Western Australia and got more than 2,000 runs for the team, but his batting average was only 28.43 and he only hit four centuries in that time. Harris also played for the Twenty20 team Perth Scorchers. He played in 14 Big Bash League (BBL) games and averaged 19.41 runs per game, scoring 192 runs.
Marcus Harris for Victoria
Harris’s move to Victoria turned out to be a very good one. In the 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season, he had 409 runs at an average of 68.16 in December 2016. This made him the player with the most runs. Victoria made it to the Sheffield Shield final. During the first day of the final, Harris got a century and put up 224 runs with Travis Dean, which was a Sheffield Shield final record. Harris said that moving to Victoria was the reason he started playing better. He said that the system in Victoria was better for him and that it helped to have more experienced players around him than he had in Western Australia.
On March 23, 2019, Harris became the 49th person to score 1,000 shield runs in a single season. This is a very rare feat. He joined Chris Rogers, Matthew Elliott, Bill Ponsford, Graham Yallop, Dean Jones, and David Hussey as the seventh Victorian to do this. Harris and Will Pucovski broke the record for the best partnership in Sheffield Shield history on November 1, 2020. Harris and Pucovski had an amazing opening stand of 486 runs against South Australia. Both players had double centuries during this time. The openers beat Steve and Mark Waugh’s previous record of 464 runs, which they set in 1990 during a Shield match between New South Wales and Western Australia.
Marcus Harris in County cricket
Harris played his first English professional cricket game in 2021, when he played for Leicestershire in the County Championship and Royal London Cup. Harris played in eight County Championship games and scored 655 runs at an average of 54.58. This was the sixth best average among players who played at least half of the event. He got three centuries during the season, with his best score of 185 off 311 balls in a win over Middlesex. In a win over Gloucestershire in early June, he led his team to victory with 148 runs off 236 balls.
International Career of Marcus Harris:
Test career
Harris was picked to join the Australian team for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2018–19. Marcus says that Australian coach Justin Langer sent him a text message that said, “Welcome to the brotherhood, you little bastard.” Harris and Langer both said in public that there was no bad blood between them, despite what the media said. This was because of what Langer said when Harris left Western Australia.
Harris finished the 2018–19 Sheffield Shield season by playing for Victoria in the last few games. In a game against Queensland, he scored 95 and 174 runs to make his case. On the last day of the regular season, he got 65 runs against South Australia to bring his total for the year to 1,024 runs.
Playing style
Harris’s way of hitting is typical of openers who grew up in Perth, like Justin Langer and Chris Rogers. He is good at a lot of different shots, especially the cover drive, pull, and hook shots. If he thinks the ball is outside the line of his off stump, he leaves it. Harris is used to being hit by fast balls.
Bowling and Batting Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 14 | 26 | 2 | 607 | 79 | 25.29 | 1322 | 45.92 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 73 | 0 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 14 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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