Player Profile
Lancashire will be the third destination in county cricket for experienced Test batter Marcus Harris, who has already represented Gloucestershire and Leicestershire.
Australian opener Harris is no stranger to these shores having spent the last four summers in England with those two counties, playing 29 matches in the Rothesay County Championship and scoring nine hundreds with an impressive best of 214.
A Perth-born Victoria state player, overseas star Harris will represent the Red Rose in this summer’s Championship as well as the Metro Bank One-Day Cup.
At time of writing, the 32-year-old was sat on 29 first-class centuries, including a best of 250 unbeaten, and just shy of 12,000 career runs - 11,564 to be precise.
Harris played the last of his 14 Test Matches at the start of 2022, with a best of 79 against India at Sydney three years earlier. He was an Ashes winner in 2021/22.
The left-hander came through the Western Australia system and debuted for them in first-class and List A cricket in February 2011. In his third first-class match, he posted a record-breaking 157, which made him the youngest Australian to score a first-class 150 - aged 18.
He helped WA win the One-Day Cup title in 2014 before moving to Victoria, where he won the Sheffield Shield in his first season (2016/17), scoring a superb 120 in their drawn final with South Australia.
In 2018/19, Victoria won the state double, with Harris once again to the fore. He scored 45 in the One-Day Cup final win over Tasmania in October 2018 before hitting a sensational 141 in the Shield final win over New South Wales later that home summer.
Harris will have wanted more out of his Test career to date, but there’s still plenty of time for a player diminutive in stature.
He helped Perth Scorchers win the T20 Big Bash title in 2014/15 and won it again in the red of the Melbourne Renegades in 2018/19.
Harris is a former team-mate of Ashton Turner’s at both Western Australia and the Scorchers.
In terms of his List A record, looking ahead to this summer’s One-Day Cup, Harris has scored three centuries in 80 career appearances to date, including a best of 142 not out.