Australian cricket legend Rod Marsh passes away at 74

The cricket community is in mourning after news broke this morning that legendary Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh had passed away in Adelaide, aged 74.

Marsh was rushed to Bundaberg Hospital after suffering a serious heart attack at a charity event last Thursday and was transferred to Adelaide earlier this week.

The Armadale-native made his Test debut during the 1970/71 Ashes and went on to play 96 Tests for his country, scoring 3,633 runs and taking a 355 dismissals as a wicket-keeper, which at the time was a world record. He also became the first Australian wicket-keeper to score a Test century, doing so against Pakistan in 1972. His relationship with the game did not end once he retired in 1984, having spent time as a development coach and Australia’s chairman of selectors. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005 and the ICC Hall of Fame four years later.

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Tributes have flooded in for the keeping great – who is survived by wife, Roslyn, and three sons, Daniel, Paul, and Jamie – from fans, journalists, former teammates and those he mentored.

The hallowed words “c. Marsh b. Lillee” will long be uttered among Australian cricket faithfuls.