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Rod Marsh
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| Batting style | Left-handed batsman (LHB) | |
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| Bowling type | Right-arm Off Break (OB) | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 95 | 92 |
| Runs scored | 3633 | 1225 |
| Batting average | 26.51 | 20.08 |
| 100s/50s | 3/16 | 0/4 |
| Top score | 132 | 66 |
| Overs bowled | 12 | - |
| Wickets | 0 | - |
| Bowling average | - | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | - |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | - | - |
| Catches/stumpings | 343/12 | 120/4 |
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Rodney William Marsh (born Armadale, Perth, Western Australia November 4, 1947) was an Australian wicketkeeper.
He played First-class cricket for Western Australia and Test cricket for Australia. He was nicknamed Iron Gloves after an inauspicious Test debut against England in 1970/71, and Bacchus after the Victorian town of Bacchus Marsh. His elder brother is the Australian golfer Graham Marsh.
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A remarkable 95 of his then world record of 355 dismissals were in combination with Dennis Lillee. He retired after the 1983/84 season where Greg Chappell and Lillee also played their final Tests. Marsh at the time of his retirement played an Australia record 96 Test matches. He was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1982. He was the first Australian wicketkeeper to score a century in Test cricket, and in the judgment of many, including biographer Mark Browning, was Australia's first great wicketkeeper/batsman.
- Headed the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide for several years.
- Marsh was the Director of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) national academy from October 2001 to September 2005.
- In August 2005, the South Australian Cricket Association announced Marsh had been appointed in a consultancy role to undertake a review of cricket throughout South Australia.
- An accomplished sledger: greeted Ian Botham when he walked out to bat during an Ashes test with the question: So how's your wife and my kids?
- An accomplished drinker: held the record for the number of cans of lager consumed on the Sydney-London flight, with 48; later broken by team-mate David Boon, who drank 53 in 1985.
- Browning, Mark. Rod Marsh: A Life of Cricket (2003). ISBN 1877058238 Rosenberg Publishing
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| NAME | Marsh, Rodney William |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Cricketer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Armadale, Western Australia |
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