Why is Australia’s love for Marnus Labuschagne conditional and complicated?

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Why is Australia’s love for Marnus Labuschagne conditional and complicated?

“C’mon Marnus, swing that f****** bat!” Went a loud cry from the stands at long-off on the morning of the second day’s play at Adelaide. Marnus had bravely battled through the previous evening, holding the fort under lights against the pink ball, arguably in the toughest conditions to bat, to stop Jasprit Bumrah and Co from effecting the damage they had wreaked in Perth. Without Marnus’s knock, Australia might well have struggled, as it could ha…