Former Australia test opener Katich ends playing career


  • Cricket
  • Saturday, 12 Jul 2014

Australia's Simon Katich plays a shot during the first day of a warm-up match against the Indian Board President's XI team in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh September 25, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

(Reuters) - Former Australia test opener Simon Katich brought the final curtain down on his cricket career by retiring from the Twenty20 format on Saturday.

The left-hander, who scored 4,188 runs in 56 tests with 10 hundreds, had retired from Australian first class cricket after a major row with the country's board following his dumping from the national side.

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