Marsh, Bichel join Australian selection panel

SYDNEY (AFP) - Former Test players Rod Marsh and Andy Bichel have been appointed to Australia's revamped selection panel, Cricket Australia said on Thursday. Marsh and Bichel will join full-time national selector John Inverarity, a new head coach to be appointed and Test captain Michael Clarke on the panel. CA's new General Manager Pat Howard said the appointees would bring their own attributes to the panel and that selectors were now based in different parts of Australia. "Rod Marsh is quite simply a legend of the game with successful high performance coaching experience in Australia, England and Dubai since he retired as Australias (then) most successful wicketkeeper-batsman," he said. "Andy Bichel has had success in the shortest form of the game since his retirement as a Test new ball bowler and he and Rod bring complementary skills to the selection table to those of John Inverarity." Marsh played 96 Tests and 92 ODIs between 1970-71 and 1983-84, making 355 Test dismissals.

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