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India might have failed to stop Mitchell Marsh from leading Australia to a smooth seven-wicket win in Perth, but the home captain was almost (figuratively) bowled over by his own team.

During the run-chase, when the right-handed opener was batting at 38 and Australia needed 29 runs off 57 balls to win the rain-marred match, cramp trouble flared up. Marnus Labuschagne and Xavier Bartlett hustled in to get him on some fluids and seemed to provide him with a bottle of pickle juice and a sports gel.

He seemed fine after just the juice, but made a funky face after consuming the gel, which fans on X (formerly Twitter) picked up to be ‘What’s that… that’s off (stale)’. Watch the reaction from the 1:30 mark here in a Cricket Australia highlight package of Marsh’s knock

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