Three things with Marnus Labuschagne: ‘It hasn’t been washed once. Literally, not once’

‘If anyone finds it, there’s a free bat or 10 awaiting them’: Marnus Labuschagne on the item he most regrets losing. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

If you turned on the telly over the weekend, you might have seen Marnus Labuschagne facing off against South Africa in the first of a three-Test series. (Australia may have won but it was all over in just two days – for some, a Test cricket tragedy.)

The 28-year-old has risen to become one of the new stars of Australian cricket, first making the team in late 2018, proving himself as Steve Smith’s understudy at the 2019 Ashes and famously achieving a whopping 215 against New Zealand in 2020. He’s now a fixture at the top of the batting order.