Free entry and free booze — that is Australian cricket legend Rod Marsh’s typically ocker formula to revitalise Test cricket’s flagging fortunes.

And Marsh, in Perth promoting his book about his 50 years in first-class cricket, has also taken a swipe at society values, saying cricket reflected a community attitude which had forgotten the true meaning of respect.

The 70-year-old wicketkeeping legend said he was saddened by the dwindling global popularity of Test cricket and that bold measures were needed to return it as the game’s pinnacle.

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“I’d let everyone in for free to start with and I’d get a brewery sponsorship and give people beer coupons,” Marsh said. “Everyone can get three mid-strength beer vouchers, and in India I’d feed them as well.

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“It’s not going to cost much to give them a bit of bread and curry and the game has heaps of money over there.”

Marsh said that cricket’s win-at-all-costs mentality, which was at the centre of the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa this year, was the product of changing attitudes towards being respectful.

He said it was affecting Australia’s performances.

“We all want to win, but I don’t think we teach people enough about respecting the game, respecting the opposition, respecting the umpires and respecting your teammates,” Marsh said.

“They are all things that make you a better person. You respect things like the speed limit because there’s a consequence if you don’t, and there’s a consequence if you don’t respect the game ... you cock it up and it comes back and bites you.

“It’s tough love and like bringing up children, you’ve got to teach them what’s right and what’s wrong.”

Marsh said he still had a deep love for cricket and feared for where the game could be headed in Australia after the ball-tampering scandal that led to the suspensions of captain Steve Smith, his deputy David Warner and WA batsman Cam Bancroft.

But he backed Australian coach Justin Langer, a product of his Adelaide-based former Australian Cricket Academy, as the man to lead the game into better times.

Marsh said he had not been asked for input into the cultural review to be released today by Cricket Australia.

He also called on administrators to allocate more money for better coaching at junior, grassroots levels to rebuild the depth of Australian cricket at a time when good technique was being threatened by shorter forms of the game.

“Something you’ve loved for such a length of time, you’re hoping it doesn’t all fall apart,” Marsh said.

“But you’ve got to have faith and Justin Langer has plenty of that and sometimes it needs something like this to bring other people on.

“It’s not an easy job because no one can sit at the cricket watching a team they love get beaten and enjoy it. But I can’t see any reason why Justin won’t be successful and I’m sure we’ll come again.”

He now lives in Adelaide, but was staying in Perth with his legendary cricket friend Dennis Lillee, with who he shared a world record 95 Test dismissals. He said his book took 18 months to write and features a treasure trove of photographs from his personal collection.

“It was a labour of love in the end and brought back a lot of great memories,” Marsh said.

“I can vividly remember my first game and I just think, ‘How can that have been 50 years ago?’. Cricket has framed what I’ve done and where I’ve been and without it, I think I would have been a very bad school-teacher.”

Marsh’s autobiography will be released tomorrow