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Full name Stephen John Rixon
Born February 25, 1954, Albury, New South Wales
Current age 54 years 82 days
Major teams Australia, New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Other Coach

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	13	24	3	394	54	18.76			0	2	33	0	42	5
ODIs	6	6	3	40	20*	13.33	98	40.81	0	0	1	0	9	2
First-class	151	221	35	4303	128	23.13			6	14			395	65
List A	53	42	13	434	52	14.96			0	1			64	12

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	151		18	20	0	-	-	-	6.66	-	0	0	0
List A	53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics
Test debut	Australia v India at Brisbane, Dec 2-6, 1977 scorecard
Last Test	Australia v West Indies at Sydney, Dec 30, 1984 - Jan 2, 1985 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	West Indies v Australia at St John's, Feb 22, 1978 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v India at Sharjah, Mar 29, 1985 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1974/75 - 1987/88
List A span	1974/75 - 1986/87

Profile

A sound wicketkeeper and dependable lower-order batsman who entered the NSW team following the retirement of Brian Taber, Rixon was thrust into the spotlight when chosen for Australia against India and the West Indies in 1977-78 after Rodney Marsh and Richie Robinson were signed up for World Series Cricket. After being Marsh's understudy during the 1981 Ashes tour he received his next international opportunity when Marsh retired and Wayne Phillips was injured in 1984-85. He signed for a lucrative, but rebel, tour of South Africa in 1985-86 which ended his Test career. At the time of his retirement in 1988 he had played more games for New South Wales than anyone else.

After his retirement as a player, Rixon became coach of the New South Wales team in 1989-90. In his first five seasons the Blues reached the Sheffield Shield final on each occasion, winning three, and achieving the Shield/one-day cup double twice. From there he became the successful coach of the New Zealand team from late 1996 until the end of the England tour of 1999, after which he returned to Sydney to pursue his business interests.

But at the start of the 2000-01 series he returned as New South Wales's coach, and at the end of the 2003-04 summer, with his contract up, he moved to England to take charge at Surrey but that didn't work out and he left after two years with some stinging criticism of English cricket. He was subsequently linked with a series of international vacancies. He joined the Indian Cricket League before its second season and took over as coach of the Hyderabad Heroes from Moin Khan.
Rick Eyre February 2008

Jan 6, 2008

Steve Rixon portrait
© Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

May 17, 2004

Steve Rixon
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May 17, 2004

Steve Rixon
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