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Simon Katich

Simon Katich
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Personal information
Full name Simon Mathew Katich
Born (1975-08-21) 21 August 1975 (age 41)
Middle Swan, Western Australia, Australia
Nickname Kat
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Batting style Left hand bat
Bowling style Left arm chinaman
Role Batsman, occasional spin bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 384) 16 August 2001 v England
Last Test 3 December 2010 v England
ODI debut (cap 143) 21 January 2001 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 24 September 2006 v West Indies
ODI shirt no. 13 & 19
Domestic team information
Years Team
1997–2002; 2013- 2014 Western Australia
2000 Durham
2002 Yorkshire
2003-2012 New South Wales
2003–2005; 2012 Hampshire
2007 Derbyshire
2008–2010 Kings XI Punjab
2011–2014 Perth Scorchers
2013–2014 Duronto Rajshahi
2013–2014 Lancashire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 56 45 248 233
Runs scored 4,188 1,324 19,667 7,136
Batting average 45.03 35.78 52.86 36.40
100s/50s 10/25 1/9 54/103 7/55
Top score 157 107* 306 136*
Balls bowled 1,039 0 6,231 877
Wickets 21 105 24
Bowling average 30.23 35.09 34.08
5 wickets in innings 1 3 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 6/65 7/130 3/21
Catches/stumpings 39/– 13/– 218/– 105/–
Source: CricketArchive, 14 July 2012

Simon Matthew Katich (born 21 August 1975, Middle Swan, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer. He captained New South Wales and also, until the end of the 2007 season, Derbyshire. In England he played for Lancashire until the end of the 2014 season and represented birth state Western Australia in Australian Domestic Cricket. He has also played for the Indian Premier League team, Kings XI Punjab.

He played primarily as a left-handed opening batsman and part-time left arm chinaman bowler. He played 56 Test matches for Australia from 2001 to 2011. On 12 June 2012 Katich retired from first class cricket in Australia, but returned to play for Western Australia in 2013.

Katich is currently serving as the Football Operations Manager of the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL club.

Katich was an AIS Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1996. and made his debut for the Western Australia state team in the 1996–97 season. The following season he was a central figure in Western Australia's Sheffield Shield success, scoring an impressive 1,039 first-class runs for the season.

He was selected to tour Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe with the national team the following season but suffered greatly from illness, including a debilitating bout of chicken pox and subsequent health problems. However, he recovered to contribute further for his state, highlighted in the 2000–01 domestic season where he helped himself to 1,282 first-class runs. He later switched from Western Australia to New South Wales where he currently lives.


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