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Encyclopedia > Rodney Marsh

Rodney William Marsh (born Armadale, Perth, Australia November 4, 1947) was an Australian Wicket keeper).


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.


Many of his then world record of 355 dismissals were in combination with Dennis Lillee. He retired in the 1982/83 series and was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1982.


Since retirement as a player

  • Headed the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide for several years.

Quotations

  • So how's your wife and my kids? During a match to Ian Botham

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Rodney Marsh (1154 words)
Marsh plundered forty four goals altogether with thirty in the league and an amazing eleven in the League Cup.
To some this was an indication that Marsh's skills were sufficient only to prosper in the lower divisions although this would be ignoring the facts that most of his teammates were patently not up to the challenge and that his own season was again spoiled by injury.
Rodney Marsh was an obvious scapegoat for City's collapse and received widespread criticism and ridicule.
Observer | Rodney Marsh proud to be a Pom (629 words)
Rodney Marsh has revealed why he has taken the remarkable decision to switch jobs - and countries - by becoming the first director of the new England cricket academy.
Marsh, aged 53, was one of the scourges of England teams in the 1970s alongside strike bowlers Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson.
Marsh was well known for a few curt and not entirely complimentary observations from behind the stumps directed at hapless English batsmen.
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