page_title: Geoff Marsh
section_title: Playing career
hierarchical_section_title: Geoff Marsh / Playing career
caption_attribution_description: English: Test batting chart of Geoff Marsh. Red columns are the runs in the innings. Blue dots indicate not outs. Blue line is average in the last ten innings. Thanks to Raven4x4x for providing the template.
context_page_description: Geoffrey Robert Marsh 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 and Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: 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".
  He soon made the opening position his own (despite his mediocre batting average of 33.18), batting alongside the likes of Mark Taylor and David Boon, and became an integral part of the Australian One Day International team.  He along with David Boon became the first pair of openers to notch hundreds in a same ODI innings for the team
  Marsh played international cricket over a seven-year period, ending in 1992.
  He 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 also captained his country in four matches.  Over his career 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.
caption: Geoff Marsh's Test career batting performance.
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