Published 10:27 IST, September 25th 2019

Australian bowler escapes horrific injury scare in Marsh Cup 2019

In the very first over of the Queensland innings when Agar was handed the ball to open the bowling for South Australia, he slipped but escaped a horrific injury

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During ongoing Marsh-Cup, 2019 on Tuesday, South Australian pacer Wes Agar escaped a horrific injury scare during his match against Queensland at Allan Border Field in Brisbane. In very first over of Queensland innings when Agar was handed ball to open bowling for South Australia, this incident took place. Fortunately, re was serious tear that took place on field. video of incident was shared by Cricket Australia on ir Twitter account.

In  viral video doing rounds on social media, right-arm pacer slipped while bowling second delivery after he was seen sliding while landing awkwardly on wrong foot. However, he mand to escape what could have been a nasty injury. umpire and batsmen on n-striking end were seen asking Agar wher he is alright or t. After falling down Agar got up again and continued to bowl.

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He bowled six overs in game and finished with figures of 0/39. Queensland won game by comfortably beating South Australia by seven wickets. 

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Marsh Cup

Marsh One-Day Cup 2019 is 51st season of official 'List A' domestic cricket competition in Australia. tournament will see matches played in Perth, Brisbane, elaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast and Hobart. tournament has alrey kicked off on September 21 and teams are tussling out to be on top in points table. Queensland is leing table with 8 points in 2 matches. South Australia is currently at bottom of table after facing defeat against tournament toppers in ir opening match. final is going to take place on 26th vember 2019. 

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08:31 IST, September 25th 2019