Vale Rod Marsh

[outabounds]

So bloody sad. Grew up in the 70s playing cricket in the yard. I became Marshy when it was time to have a slog. I had the absolute pleasure of meeting the great man when he was coaching the AIS team years ago. Fantastic guy and a very sad day for Australian Cricket.

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[Westend]

Rip Rod legend

very sad

 

[brutus76]

Why has Australian cricket been pretty damn good for the last 30 years? This bloke.

RIP Bacchus.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Legend.

 

[Gough]

Why has Australian cricket been pretty damn good for the last 30 years? This bloke.

RIP Bacchus.

The 2005 Ashes was his legacy when you think about it, that great Oz team that he steered through the Academy against his reinvented English side.

 

[Bluish]

A lot will be rightly be said about how good Marsh was as a keeper and a teammate. About his batting though - It’s hard to fathom in a post-Gilchrist world, but it took nearly a hundred years for an Australian wicket-keeper to make a test ton (Marsh at Adelaide in 72). Bacchus (and Healy) were important stepping stones from the “pure glove work” keepers like Tallon and Grout, to the modern wicket-keeper batsman. Marsh’s ton in the Centenary Test (when Rick McCosker came out with a broken jaw to help him get there) will live on in my mind. Sadly the 22 players from that game are steadily departing (Hookes, Walker, Gilmour, Greig, Willis, Woolmer).

 

[stax on the mull]

First vision of cricket I ever saw was at my uncles house (we didn't have a TV) - a package of highlights from the Ashes tour in 1972 and Marsh was the first test cricketer I can remember hitting a 6 - so from that point on I always wanted to watch cricket to see him bat.

As a wicket keeper, the c Marsh b Lillee thing was more than just a statistical phenomenon. There's 2 times I can remember when Lillee was at the top of his mark and Marsh points to bowl a legside bouncer and Lillee obliges and the batsman is caught behind going for a hook. First one was in a WA shield game with Victorian wk/batsman Richie Robinson (prob 2nd choice Aust keeper at the time) who had made a big hundred at the WACA - and the other one which made it more than just a fluke occurence was against Greg Chappell, which might have been with my aging memory in a Gillette Cup Qld vs WA one dayer.

RIP

 

[Mockcockpit]

Had everything that clip Gough. Kiwis in the beige, Marshy sending it over the Vic Richardson gates, Bill in his pomp and an "absolutely marvellous" from Richie at the end. Couldn't ask for more. RIP Iron Gloves.

 

[Mockcockpit]

Sadly the 22 players from that game are steadily departing (Hookes, Walker, Gilmour, Greig, Willis, Underwood, Woolmer).

Was surprised to see this but not as surprised as Derek Underwood will be. "Deadly" but not yet dead.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I remember this well and then was at the MCG about 3 years later when Cairns returned the favour with 6 sixes in his 51 after Australia made 300+.

I also remember in the WSC days and big Garth Leroux hit Swampy in the nuts twice. After the second one he threw his bat to the ground and challenged Leroux to a fight while calling him a campaigner. I think his exact words were, ' havva go ya campaigner.'

I think audio delays were introduced after this

Farewell to a great Aussie and my first ever favourite cricketer.

 

[gordo2016]

Remember watching Rod in a one dayer and he snapped his bat in half, playing a shot. When he batted there was always something happening, he didn't stuff around and was a big crowd favourite. After retirement he gave so much back to cricket, coaching and as a selector. RIP Iron Gloves.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

RIP Rod. I loved watching you. You were such a fierce competitor. Thanks for the huge enjoyment you gave me over the years.

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

Granddad bought me two of Marsh's books when I was a kid...The Gloves of Irony and The Inside Edge. I'll dust them off over the weekend for a read.

The guy could spin a yarn with the best of them.

 

[NSWCROW]

" 1am at the bar, you wouldn't have known if he'd had a belter or a shocker............although neither would he "



Kerry O'Keefe



I only really started getting into cricket as he retired but the one image that'll always stay with me is him shaking his head and telling Trevor Chappell " Don't mate "


Gone way too soon

 

[Bluish]

Was surprised to see this but not as surprised as Derek Underwood will be. "Deadly" but not yet dead.

Yep, got my wires crossed.

 

[Tonga Bob]

Caught Marsh, bowled Lillee! A classic Aussie pairing

Take a look back at some memorable dismissals conjured up between one of the finest partnerships Australian cricket has ever produced - that between wicketkeeping legend Rod Marsh and fast-bowling great Dennis Lillee

www.cricket.com.au

Gold.

 

[DaRick]

A genuine legend of Australian cricket.

Not only was he one of Australia's finest keepers, but he helped mastermind the creation of both that legendary 1990s-2000s AUS side through his work at the ACB Academy and one of the finest English teams in living memory (the 2009-2012 one) via the ECB Academy.

To his credit, he raised the alarm bells in the early 2000s when he realised that the Academy had stopped working properly and that things wouldn't be so rosy afterwards, but the good folks at the ACB were too blinded by the bottom-line to listen to him. He also did volunteer to be a selector after the upheavals caused by the 2010/11 Ashes calamity, and saw us through some tricky times.

Like Dean Jones, he was taken from us too soon, and the loss of his knowledge, earnt through years of toil, along with his extraverted, fun-loving personality, will be felt by both cricket lovers everywhere and future Australian cricketers.

RIP.

 

[footyfan1978]

Real sad to hear in car on radio.
Lots of stories about the fella.
In old terms he was a man's man.
I love when Chapell about to tell his younger bro to bowl underarm, Bacchus is there behind the stumps shaking his head, saying "don't do it mate"
Says so much about the guy. On one hand he totally disagrees with what you doing and openly showing he does, but at same time, he stills sees you as a mate, just doing something foolish and trying to talk a mate out of doing something he will regret.

 

[Santana]

God ****ing damn it

 

[Spiritof82]

By far the best keeper Australia has ever had, kept to the two fastest bowlers that have played for Aust in Lillee and Thompson and did it all on rough and have made pitches unlike the flat bowling greens they call pitch's now

 

[Plugger35]

My only personal encounter with Rod Marsh was on a family holiday down south in WA and we stopped off at a roadhouse for lunch and Rod was there with his family and in true Aussie legend style he waited outside in the carpark having a durrie while his wife and kids got him some lunch and a drink.

I was awestruck as a kid seeing him in person but I didn't think it was the time and place to pester him for an autograph when he was puffing on a dart.

 

[Gough]

He pioneered the cut down keeper's pads too, he was the first I can remember wearing them.

 

[smasha]

Lillee to Marsh and Chappell waiting in the slips,the golden era for me of Australian cricket.
Good old days when you could leave your dad's car unlocked going for a flake and chips and a few dimmys at the local fish n chips.

70's ruled.

 

[Plugger35]

Lillee to Marsh and Chappell waiting in the slips,the golden era for me of Australian cricket.
Good old days when you could leave your dad's car unlocked going for a flake and chips and a few dimmys at the local fish n chips.

70's ruled.

Marshy featured in one of the great cricket songs of the 70s.




Those were the days.

 

[Neese]

This is sad. Great player and awesome bloke.