Brisbane: Former Australian cricketer and national selector Rod Marsh has passed away at 74, a week after suffering a heart attack during a fundraising event in Queensland last Thursday.
Marsh represented Australia in 96 Test matches between 1970 and 1984, besides 92 one-day internationals. Notably, his tally of 355 dismissals was the most by a wicketkeeper in Test cricket by the time of his retirement. He also played 92 ODIs for Australia before retiring from top-flight cricket in February 1984.
He was the first Australian wicketkeeper to score a century in test cricket. He later led the national cricket academies in Australia and in England and was the inaugural head of the International Cricket Council’s world coaching academy in Dubai.
In 2014, he was appointed as Australia’s chairman of selectors and held the position for two years. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in the year 1985.
