With a distinctive mustache, unbuttoned shirt and a baggy green cap like a beacon behind the stumps, the sight of Rod Marsh and the sound of his name pervaded Australian summers in the 1970s and early 80s.
The cricket great, who formed a prolonged and prolific wicket-taking partnership with Australian pace bowler Dennis Lillee, died in an Adelaide hospital on Friday just over a week after having a heart attack during a fundraising event in Queensland state. He was 74.
A stocky and stoic wicketkeeper-batter, Marsh was half of a catchphrase that was synonymous with the era of Test cricket: caught Marsh, bowled Lillee. They combined a record 95 times to dismiss opposition batters in Test cricket.
