17 Facts About Geoff Marsh

1.

Geoffrey Robert Marsh was born on 31 December 1958 and is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector.

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Geoff Marsh played 50 Test matches and 117 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman.

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Geoff Marsh later coached Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.

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Geoff 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.

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Geoff Marsh made his debut in December 1985 against India and took part of the tours of New Zealand and India the following year.

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Geoff Marsh soon made the opening position his own, batting alongside the likes of Mark Taylor and David Boon, and became an integral part of the Australian One Day International team.

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Geoff Marsh played international cricket over a seven-year period, ending in 1992.

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8.

Geoff Marsh is best remembered for his part in the Australian team that won the 1987 World Cup in India, including an unbeaten 126 against New Zealand in Chandigarh, while he captained his country in four matches.

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Over his career Geoff Marsh was a solid performer in One Day International cricket, with a batting average of nearly 40 but had a very low strike rate compared to more recent opening batsman.

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Geoff Marsh retired from playing cricket in 1994 before taking up coaching.

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Geoff Marsh was the coach of the Australian team that won the 1999 World Cup in England, guiding the team to seven consecutive victories to help them win the tournament.

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Geoff Marsh left the Australian coaching job and soon became a selector for the Australian Cricket Board, although he left this position in 2001 to become coach of the Zimbabwean national teams.

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Geoff Marsh continued in this position until 2004 when his contract expired; many considered this decision was made due to the political circumstances of Zimbabwe's government under Robert Mugabe, although he has never commented publicly on the matter.

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In mid 2009 Geoff Marsh was appointed Head Coach of the Fremantle District Cricket Club, a club which Geoff Marsh spend most of his senior playing career with.

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Geoff Marsh was appointed as the head coach for the team Pune Warriors India which made its IPL debut in 2011.

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Geoff Marsh is only the third Test player - after Walter Hadlee and Lala Amarnath - to have two sons play Test cricket: Shaun Marsh, who made his test debut against Sri Lanka in 2011; and Mitchell Marsh, who made his test debut against Pakistan in 2014.

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The Geoff Marsh family took in the family of England cricketer Tom Curran in Zimbabwe after the Curran family were evicted from their farm.