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Dennis Lillee joins Rod Marsh's mates in emotional farewell (The West Australian)

The colour and flavour of a unique sporting life was celebrated with some grand old tales when Greg and Ian Chappell and fearsome quick Jeff Thomson sat down ...

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'Such a straight-shooter': 'Shattered' cricket legends mourn 'absolute ... (Fox Sports)

'Such a straight-shooter': 'Shattered' cricket legends mourn 'absolute icon' Marsh.

“He was aggressive with the bat, he was a tough cricketer but a very fair cricketer. He was just such a tough and fair cricketer.” “He was such a straight-shooter and I think that’s the trademark, he doesn’t beat around the bush but he’s got such a great heart. He was as strong as an ox. He was an archetypal grassroots Australian. A bloke who you wouldn’t have minded having in the trenches beside you. He was so tough. “So incredibly sad to hear of the passing of Rod (Bacchus) Marsh an absolute icon of Aust cricket. “He was good fun. “For me to then go down as an 18 or 17-year-old to Adelaide, to the Cricket Academy, to meet Rod Marsh for the first time, to be under his guidance for a number of years. I still can’t believe that he was in my group of friends, in my friendship circle. an absolute legend of the game, a legend of a bloke. It really was him, he was just an idol, he helped me pursue what I wanted to do.

Horse named after Rod Marsh to catch them out at Newcastle (Herald Sun)

On a day when the sad news broke of the passing of the great Australian cricketer Rod Marsh there's certainly an omen tip for punters which will add an ...

Rod Marsh: The trailblazer who enjoyed an iconic partnership with ... (Largs and Millport Weekly News)

Caught Marsh, bowled Lillee. A phrase inked into the history of Test cricket. Rod Marsh wore the famous baggy green with distinction, appearing 96 times in ...

There he worked with Kevin Pietersen at the start of his England career. Along came Kerry Packer’s World Series in 1978 and Marsh joined his team-mates in signing up. Pietersen wrote on Twitter: “With great sadness I write this. His Test bow owed a lot to Sir Don Bradman – a man who knew a thing or two about cricket. We always got on and had a really good relationship,” Marsh told Cricket Monthly back in 2010. However his international career did not start all that smoothly.

Rod Marsh obituary (The Guardian)

Combative wicketkeeper whose success in combination with Australia's fast bowlers gave him a record-breaking Test career.

But his batting was more successful, and in his fourth Test, in Melbourne in 1971, he made 92 not out, only missing out on a century because the skipper, Bill Lawry, declared the innings closed. In 96 Tests he had claimed 355 dismissals, including 12 stumpings, and had a batting average of 26.51, with three hundreds. When the umpire Tom Brooks gave Randall out, the Englishman began to walk back to the pavilion to a standing ovation, until Marsh stepped in to tell Brooks that he had failed to catch the ball cleanly, bringing the batsman back to continue his innings. Marsh had a disconcerting start to his Test career with the gloves, dropping several chances in his early games and earning himself the derogatory nickname “Iron Gloves” in the press. During a Test career that ran from 1971 to 1984, Marsh was responsible for more than 350 dismissals – a world record at the time and still the fourth highest tally ever. The number of their Test victims was matched by a more or less equal total of dismissals for Western Australia, for whom they played in further deadly combination when not on international duty.

First impressions not a true sign of the Rodney Marsh I came to love (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Rod and I first crossed paths at a schoolboy carnival in Brisbane when he was 13 and I was 12. We were still in short pants. He represented Western Australia ...

Following a stint at the Australian Academy, Rod had time at the helm of the England Academy and was inaugural head coach at the ICC Academy in Dubai. He was a wonderful coach and mentor who positively impacted many lives and careers across generations. As a teammate, he was loved and respected for the same reason. He was a selector in England and Australia, where he became chairman of selectors. His swashbuckling 91 in a losing cause at Old Trafford in the first Test of the 1972 tour of England and his 44 not out in a partnership of 71 with Paul Sheahan got us across the line in the final Test at The Oval to draw the series 2-2 in what was a turning point for Australian cricket at the time. Rod was a great support to Ian Chappell throughout his captaincy and was my deputy during my time as captain. “I always felt that had they made Marsh captain at some point after I first stepped down in 1981 for the away Ashes series, the ACB would never have needed to reappoint me. I had been on the fringe of the team for a few years, but Rod was a bolter selection to replace his predecessor, Brian Taber. His third Test century in the second innings of the Centenary Test was another highlight. The other great memory is of Rod becoming the first Australian wicket keeper to make a Test century against Pakistan in 1972. Rod and I first crossed paths at a schoolboy carnival in Brisbane when he was 13 and I was 12. We joked at one stage that we had slept in the same room together more often than we had with our wives. Rod didn’t know how to take a backward step and his courage and gung ho attitude inspired his teammates on many occasions.

Caught Marsh, bowled Lillee: Cricket's endearing phrase (The Roar)

It all had the portents for being a drab week's reading, until, by chance, I picked off the shelf a book called “You'll Keep” by Australian cricket wicketkeeper ...

His straight-shooting, no-nonsense approach made him an asset to any captain he served under, and we practiced his athletic dives into a mate’s swimming pool to try and mimic the man who shook off the nicknames to become one of our cricketing giants. A powerful late-innings hitter was a bonus in the World Series Cup summers of the early 80s, and in 1981, Marsh launched an extraordinary last over assault on New Zealand bowler Lance Cairns, taking the first five balls of the over for 26 – a neat and symmetrical scorecard of 6,4,6,4,6. As well as taking part in cricket’s revolution of the late 1970s, Marsh revolutionised the keeper position, by adding batting talent to his place in the order. He finished with 355 Test dismissals – a record for the time and the exact same amount as Lillee’s record haul. Marsh was clearly in disagreement with his captain, shaking his head, saying “No, mate, don’t do this,” picked up by the stump microphone. Later on, he reputedly said, “That bloke was going to plaster us all over the fence.” Just in case anyone thought World Series Cricket was simply an exhibition.