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Full name Simon Mathew Katich
Born August 21, 1975, Middle Swan, Western Australia
Current age 29 years 326 days
Major teams Australia, Durham, Hampshire, New South Wales, Western
Australia, Yorkshire
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm chinaman
Height 1.82 m
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
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Tests 16 26 3 1010 125 43.91 1984 50.90 2 6 124 3 10 0
ODIs 18 15 3 344 76 28.66 443 77.65 0 2 43 0 8 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 1 0 30 30 30.00 25 120.00 0 0 1 0
First-class 134 232 33 10096 228* 50.73 28 51 129 0
List A 148 141 19 4807 136* 39.40 6 36 76 0
Twenty-20 6 6 2 209 59* 52.25 185 112.97 0 2 2 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 16 587 356 11 6/65 6/90 32.36 3.63 53.36 0 1 0
ODIs 18 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
First-class 134 4853 2901 77 7/130 37.67 3.58 63.02 3 0
List A 148 823 766 24 3/21 3/21 31.91 5.58 34.29 0 0 0
Twenty-20 6 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
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Test debut England v Australia at Leeds - Aug 16-20, 2001 scorecard
Last Test New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Mar 26-29, 2005
scorecard
ODI debut Australia v Zimbabwe at Melbourne - Jan 21, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005 scorecard
Only Twenty-20 Int. New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17,
2005 scorecard
First-class span 1996/97 - 2005
List A span 1995/96 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2003 - 2004/05
Apart from suffering a debilitating mystery illness
in 1999, there has been very little to disrupt the career of Simon
Katich. Ever since he was included in Western Australia's state
squad in 1994-95, on the back of a brilliant innings of 73 in
Perth's first-grade final the previous season, he always looked
destined for bigger things. Katich is a left-hander blessed with a
very good eye and the rich sense of timing that distinguishes the
sport's more gifted batsmen. His ability to work the ball into gaps
and discipline himself to play long innings is also supreme. His
talents were on show when he took the Australian domestic scene by
storm during the 1998-99 season, amassing 1039 first-class runs (115
of them coming in the Sheffield Shield Final); assuming a central
role in Western Australia's Sheffield Shield title success; and
earning a berth in the Australian party to Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
Katich was on the brink of a call-up to the Test side in Sri Lanka
when he contracted chicken pox and was quarantined. For a long
period he was unable to free himself of a virus that overcame him in
the wake of that illness, and was forced to sit out much of the
1999-2000 domestic summer at home. A tremendous opening season in
county cricket with Durham in 2000 soon had his career ascending
again. He followed it with another stellar summer in Australia in
2000-01, amassing a century against each of the other five states on
the way to a total of 1282 first-class runs. He was rewarded with a
berth on the 2001 Ashes tour, and replaced the injured Steve Waugh
for the fourth Test. After making 15 and 0* on debut at Headingley
he had to wait two years before getting an opportunity against
Zimbabwe, where his left-arm chinaman bowling was surprisingly
effective. He took 6 for 65 in the second innings of the second Test
in Sydney, now his home after switching to New South Wales.
Returning to the SCG later in the summer against India, he
registered his maiden Test century and helped to ensure Steve
Waugh's final match ended in a draw instead of a loss. Dropped for
the first two Tests in Sri Lanka in 2004, he was elevated to Ricky
Ponting's place at No. 3 in India in October and played with an eery
calmness. The highlight and lowlight came in the same innings, his
99 in the third-Test victory at Nagpur.
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