Geoff Marsh
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Marsh at Victoria University, Wellington in 1986.
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| Full name | Geoffrey Robert Marsh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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31 December 1958 Northam, Western Australia, Australia |
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| Nickname | Swampy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Shaun Marsh, Mitchell Marsh (sons), Melissa Marsh (daughter) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 333) | 13–17 December 1985 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 25–29 January 1992 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 91) | 14 January 1986 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 1 March 1992 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1994 | Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born 31 December 1958, in Northam, Western Australia) 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 (2001–2004) and Sri Lanka (2011–12).
Marsh was a steady, solid right-handed opening batsman and capable fielder, making his first-class debut for Western Australia as a nineteen-year-old in the 1977–1978 Sheffield Shield season. In 1978 he played five games of Australian rules football for South Fremantle in the West Australian National Football League before concentrating only on cricket.
Marsh established himself as a solid competitor on the domestic front and was on the fringes of the national team for a number of years before winning selection in the Australian Test team. He made his debut in December 1985 against India and took part of the tours of New Zealand and India the following year. However, his domestic debut was less than impressive, scoring a golden pair for Western Australia on debut at Sydney Cricket Ground, which was recorded in hand-written form on a storing cabinet inside the away team's dressing room as a symbolic "domestic honours board".
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