Marsh returns to Adelaide

Rod Marsh has accepted a coaching position with South Australia after spending the past four years preparing promising England players for Test cricket. While Marsh's contribution to Australia over 96 Tests and ten years of coaching was huge, he could arrive at his new post in Adelaide in November having helped England win the Ashes.

A former England selector and the Academy director during the team's rise to second in the world, Marsh will begin work as a consultant with South Australia's elite and junior squads. He will also review the structure of the game in the state with an aim to strengthen all areas.

Ian McLachlan, the South Australian Cricket Association president, said Marsh was a great asset who would bring "enormous skills and knowledge". "Rod is one of the best cricket minds in the world," he said, "and it is a great coup for SACA to bring him home again."

Marsh was with the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy in Adelaide from 1991, where he worked with players such as Ricky Ponting and Glenn McGrath, and became the ECB Academy coach in 2001. During his 14-year Test career he collected a then-world record 355 dismissals.