In a later memoir, “The Gloves Of Irony”, he talked about the battering his hands took from keeping to Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson,marvelling at Lillee’s change of pace – “one ball would smack into my gloves, the next one wouldn’t, and if I couldn’t tell the difference, the batsman was having a horror time…” Thommo, it seemed,had no change of pace, just arthritis-inducing thunderbolts that Marsh seemingly stood halfway to the boundary fence to field. But this cricketing fan saw no evidence of that – only of the nuggetty but supremely agile gloveman who often took screaming catches in front of first and even second slip (and given those two positions were often occupied by the Chappell brothers, you’d want to be sure of yourself).
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