Star-studded WA elect to bat first in Marsh Cup final

The 2022 Marsh Cup Final is being live streamed oncricket.com.au and the CA Live app, and broadcast on Fox Sports and Kayo

A Western Australia side featuring nine players with international experience has elected to bat first in the Marsh One-Day Cup final against NSW in Melbourne.

WA skipper Ashton Turner won the toss on a sunny morning at Junction Oval and elected to have first use of the pitch.

WA confirmed an unchanged side from their win over Victoria earlier this week, with Aaron Hardie and Matthew Kelly the only members of the XI to have not played international cricket.

The Blues have picked two leg-spinners, Adam Zampa and Tanveer Sangha, while their batting will be led by skipper Kurtis Patterson and allrounders Moises Henriques and Daniel Sams.

Both WA and NSW have vastly different sides than the two that went head-to-head in last year's decider.

With that final played in April 2021 and only clashing with the Indian Premier League, NSW fielded an attack featuring Test stars Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon, while WA had the benefit of Cameron Green, Mitch Marsh, Ashton Agar and Josh Inglis.

This year, with those Australian representatives in Pakistan for the historic three-Test series, the Marsh Cup decider is shaping as a showdown between Western Australia's "world-class" pace attack and the NSW spin duo of Zampa and Sangha.

Western Australia XI: Josh Philippe (wk), D'Arcy Short, Shaun Marsh, Cameron Bancroft, Ashton Turner (c), Hilton Cartwright, Aaron Hardie, Jhye Richardson, Andrew Tye, Matthew Kelly, Jason Behrendorff

NSW XI: Kurtis Patterson (c), Matthew Gilkes, Daniel Hughes, Moises Henriques, Jack Edwards, Hayden Kerr, Daniel Sams, Baxter Holt (wk), Ben Dwarshuis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha