SYDNEY - Chairman of selectors Rod Marsh has stepped down with immediate effect after a humiliating run of five heavy Test defeats, Cricket Australia said Wednesday. Former wicketkeeping great Rod Marsh quit amid recriminations about poorly performing AustraliaThe former wicketkeeping great, 69, quit amid recriminations about the poorly performing national team which crashed to a first-ever home series defeat to South Africa on Tuesday. "This is my own decision and no one within Cricket Australia has pressured me or even suggested that I should do this," Marsh said in a statement.

Source: Bangkok Post November 16, 2016 06:50 UTC