Melbourne, April 1 -- Australian selection chair George Bailey indicated that all-rounder Mitchell Marsh, currently the T20I captain, still has an "incredibly important role" to play in white-ball cricket and his red-ball career is also not over as well.

The Aussies named a 23-player list that will receive national contracts for the 2025/26 season on Tuesday, which also witnessed Marsh getting a central contract. The 33-year-old has dealt with plenty of injury issues recently, which hampered his ability to bowl and he last played for Australia back in December last year during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, in which he was below par with both bat and ball, taking just three wickets and scoring just 73 runs.

Currently, he is playing for Luc...