1. Simon Matthew Katich was born on 21 August 1975 and is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer.
39 Facts About Simon Katich
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Simon Katich captained New South Wales and, until the end of the 2007 season, Derbyshire County Cricket Club.
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Simon Katich was a member of the Australian team that won the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
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Simon Katich played primarily as a left-handed opening batsman and part-time left-arm unorthodox spin bowler.
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Simon Katich played 56 Test matches for Australia from 2001 to 2011.
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On 12 June 2012 Simon Katich retired from first-class cricket in Australia, but returned to play for Western Australia in 2013.
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Simon Katich is a commentator for SEN Radio and the Seven Network.
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Simon Katich was an AIS Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1996.
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Simon Katich was selected to tour Sri Lanka with the national team the following season but suffered greatly from illness, including a debilitating bout of chicken pox.
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Simon Katich later switched from Western Australia to New South Wales where he currently lives.
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Simon Katich made his Test debut in the fourth Test of the 2001 Ashes tour of England.
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Simon Katich failed to capitalize making only 15 and was not out 0.
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Simon Katich regained his place and enjoyed a good Test series in India in October 2004, where he made good scores of 81 and 99.
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Simon Katich was fined for showing dissent during the fourth Test to umpire Aleem Dar along with captain Ricky Ponting.
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Australia persisted with him throughout the VB Series and in South Africa, as Simon Katich scored runs fairly consistently.
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Simon Katich was not picked in the 15 man squad to play in the World Cup in the West Indies.
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Simon Katich retained his spot for the home series against New Zealand.
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However, in the second innings, Simon Katich carried his bat through the innings; the first cricketer to do so at Test level since Mark Taylor in the late 1990s.
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Simon Katich's batting allowed Australia to post a victory target of 327, which it ultimately defended.
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Simon Katich was selected for the 2009 tour to England and he played in all five Ashes Tests, scoring 341 runs in 8 innings at an average of 42.62.
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Simon Katich opened the batting with Phillip Hughes for the first two Tests at Cardiff and Lord's but Hughes was dropped for the Third Test at Edgbaston due to poor form, so Simon Katich was then partnered by Shane Watson for the final three Tests.
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Simon Katich scored his eighth Test century in the First Test with 122.
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Simon Katich scored these runs at a strike rate of 53.87.
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Simon Katich took six catches in the field and effected two direct hit run outs in the Fifth Test.
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Simon Katich was crowned the Pura Cup player of the year for his 1506 runs at an average of 94.12.
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The highlight of Simon Katich's season was undoubtedly his 306 against QLD at the SCG, an innings in which the last 200 runs came at better than a run a ball.
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Peter Roebuck later claimed Simon Katich should be the Australian cricket captain after Ricky Ponting came under fire during the January 2008 SCG Test.
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Simon Katich cemented his place in the Test team with scores of 113 and 157 in the second and third Tests respectively.
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Simon Katich was awarded the Men's Test Player of the Year at the Allan Border Medal ceremony by the CA in 2010.
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In October 2015, Simon Katich was appointed as an assistant coach of Indian Premier League side Kolkata Knight Riders.
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Simon Katich was replaced during the 2021 IPL and in December 2021, Katich was named as assistant coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad for IPL 2022 season.
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Simon Katich's father's parents were born in Croatia and emigrated to Australia in the 1920s, eventually settling in Perth.
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Simon Katich's father, Vince, was a police detective who helped play a part in the capture of serial killers David and Catherine Birnie.
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Simon Katich attended Trinity College in Perth, Western Australia, where there is a cricket pavilion named after him.
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Simon Katich holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia.
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Simon Katich has no sense of smell, having lost it following a bout of glandular fever early in his career.
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Simon Katich formerly held the role of football operations manager of the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL club.
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Simon Katich captained New South Wales to victory in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 in 2009.
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Simon Katich scored 306 for New South Wales against Queensland in Sydney, 2007.