11 Facts About Simon Harmer

Simon Ross Harmer was born on 10 February 1989 and is a South African international cricketer.

Simon Harmer plays for South Africa primarily as an off-break bowler but is a capable lower order batsman.

Ahead of the 2017 season, Simon Harmer signed for Essex County Cricket Club as a Kolpak player.

In June, in the 2017 County Championship, Simon Harmer took 9 wickets for 95 runs in the second innings against Middlesex.

Simon Harmer was the first bowler for Essex to take nine wickets in an innings since Mark Ilott in 1995, and he finished with career-best match figures of 14 for 172.

Simon Harmer continued his form and took the wicket which confirmed Essex as Champions in the win against Warwickshire.

Simon Harmer finished the 2017 season with the second-highest haul in the Country in terms of wickets taken, with 72 wickets at 19.19.

In October 2018, Simon Harmer was named in Jozi Stars' squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament.

In September 2019, Simon Harmer captained Essex County Cricket Club to their first ever T20 Blast victory against the Worcestershire County Cricket Club after taking 7 wickets across both the semi-final and final on Finals Day, the most by any bowler on a T20 English Domestic Finals Day.

In 2019 Simon Harmer expressed a desire to play for the England national team, but due to a variety of immigration regulation changes in the wake of Brexit in 2020, this proved impossible and he abandoned the idea in 2021.

In January 2022, Simon Harmer was named in the 17-man South Africa Test squad for their tour of New Zealand.