Rod William Marsh MBE was an Australian professional cricketer who played as a wicketkeeper for the Australian national team. Marsh had a Test career spanning from the 1970–71 to the 1983–84 Australian seasons.
Rod Marsh: Heart attack| Shane warne| Sons| Death
Heart Attack:
Team India players on Saturday paid tribute to Shane Warne and Rod Marsh after the Aussie greats passed away on Friday. Warne, widely regarded as one of the greatest spinners to have played the game, died from a suspected heart attack while on a holiday in Thailand.
The cricket fraternity expressed its shock and grief following the passing away of the Aussie giant and paid its rich tribute to ‘Warnie’.
Shane Warne:
Ahead of the scheduled start of Day 2 in the first Test in Mohali, the players from India and Sri Lanka observed a minute’s silence in memory of Warne and Marsh.
Warne is widely known as was one of the most influential cricketers in history, having reinvented the art of leg-spin almost single-handedly when he burst onto the international scene in the early 1990s. By the time he retired from international cricket in 2007, he had become the first bowler to reach 700 Test wickets.
Sons:
Son
Daniel Marsh
A central figure in Australia’s ICC Cricket World Cup triumph in 1999 when he was player of the match in both the semi-final and the final, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack recognised Warne’s achievements by naming him as one of its Five Cricketers of the Twentieth Century.
Geoffrey Robert Marsh is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and 117 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman. As the coach of Australia he was in charge when Australia won the 1999 Cricket World Cup in England. He later coached Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.
Death:
Rod Marsh, one of the most iconic and respected figures in Australian cricket history, has died aged 74.
Marsh was flown from Bundaberg to Royal Adelaide Hospital earlier this week after suffering a major heart attack last Thursday. He remained in an induced coma until his passing.
