Dennis Lillee was one of many to remember Australian cricket legend Rod Marsh in a stirring tribute at the cricket legend’s funeral, where family and friends farewelled the former wicketkeeper in Adelaide today.

The 74-year-old died earlier this month, a week after suffering a heart attack while on a trip to Queensland.

Lillee recalled a cautious beginning to his famous partnership with Marsh, after the latter realised the former didn’t drink.

“It’s the person Rod Marsh that I lovedm” he said.

“I’ve got to say that it hasn’t always been that way; it was something that grew over time, even after our careers were finished.

“Our friendship started badly, one day after play, him with a beer in his hand, and me pouring a full-strength soft drink,” he smiled.

“He said to me, ‘I don’t trust you.’

“Taken aback, I enquired with apprehension why that was. He said, ‘Because my old man Ken said never trust anyone who doesn’t drink’.”

Lillee recalled a 4WD trip outside of Perth, when a punctured tyre forced them to stop just after the pair spotted an 8m long snake.

“I said I’d watch out for the snake while Bacchus got under the car to lower the spare,” he said.

“I pinched one of his ankles… he hit his head on the under-carriage and then shot out from under the car and got back in.

“I just couldn’t stop laughing, but it backfired as he refused to get out and I was left to change the tyre, with one eye looking out for that bloody reptile.”

Former national captains Ian Chappell and Allan Border, fast bowling great Jeff Thomson and iconic Aussie cricketer David Boon filled the Adelaide Oval’s William Magarey Room, along with WA cricket greats John Inverarity, Bruce Laird, Terry Alderman, Graeme Wood, Ian Brayshaw, Justin Langer, Geoff Marsh, Wayne Clark and Adam Gilchrist.

Ex-Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson and ex-Collingwood president Eddie McGuire also joined other cricket stars Glenn McGrath, Matthew Hayden, Ian Healy and Shane Watson at the service.

Inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005 and the ICC Hall of Fame in 2009, Marsh is survived by wife Ros and children Paul, Dan and Jamie.

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