Rod Marsh, legendary Australia wicketkeeper, rushed to hospital after suffering heart attack
India Today
Legendary Australia wicketkeeper Rod Marsh suffered a heart attack while he was on his way to a charity event in Queensland state. He was rushed to the hospital by the organisers of the event who did not wait for an ambulance.
Legendary Australian wicketkeeper was rushed to a Queensland hospital on Thursday aft the suffered a serious heart attack. Marsh, 74, reached the hospital just in time with the doctors reportedly claiming that the former cricketer would not have made it had he waited for an ambulance.
Marsh, who played 96 Tests and 92 ODIs for Australia between 1970 and 1984, had a heart attack when being driven in a car to a hotel in Bundaberg soon after landing in the city in northern Queensland state, the Daily Telegraph said. Marsh was in Bundaberg for a charity cricket match for Bulls Masters, a local non-profit organisation.
Two officials from Bulls Masters were in the car with Marsh and drove him to a Bundaberg hospital, the paper quoted Bulls Masters boss Jimmy Maher as saying.
"(They) deserve so much credit because the doctor said if they had waited for an ambulance (Marsh) would not have made it," Maher told the paper.
"The medical staff at the Bundaberg Hospital were wonderful. We are all shocked. It's terrible."
The report added that the doctors saved Marsh's life after the cricketer reached there in time.
Regarded as one of Australia's finest wicketkeepers, Marsh retired in 1984 with a then-world record tally of 355 dismissals. He is third on Australia's all-time dismissals list behind Adam Gilchrist (416) and Ian Healy (395).
