Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2018-19: 5 reasons why Marsh brothers can be the trump card for Australia

#3 Home advantage

Playing a Test match at home is always an advantage. Australia have lost only one Test series in recent times (against Proteas in 2016-17). This shows the dominance exhibited by them on the opposition.

A controversial call-up for Mitchell Marsh for the third Test at Perth raised eyebrows among a lot of critics and experts. He proved them wrong with a swashbuckling 181 which in turn sealed the series for Australia.

Both of them faced Stuart Broad and James Anderson without any pressure and the home advantage made them feel so better. Shaun scored over 445 runs, the second highest run scorer next to Smith while his sibling scored over 320 runs in just four innings.

The brothers will be looking forward to replicating the same in the upcoming series and it will be a herculean task for Indian pace attack to stem their run flow.