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Steve Rixon is an Australian former cricketer and coach. He was born on 25 February 1954 in Albury, Australia. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
Rixon played for New South Wales from 1975 to 1985, and represented Australia in two One Day Internationals in 1983. He was a member of the Australian squad for the 1983 World Cup, but did not play in any matches.
Rixon was appointed coach of the Australian cricket team in 1996, and held the position until 1999. He was also the coach of the New South Wales cricket team from 2000 to 2003.
Rixon has also coached the Sri Lankan cricket team, the West Indies cricket team, and the New Zealand cricket team. He was the coach of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League from 2008 to 2010.
As of 2021, Steve Rixon's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.
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It was also reported that Rixon was interested in taking over the head coaching job of the Australian cricket team when John Buchanan left at the end of the 2006/07 Ashes series. He was not appointed and instead Tim Nielsen took over. In December 2018 he was appointed fielding coach of Sri Lanka cricket team, and on the 14 March 2019 he was handed the coaching duties half way through the Sri Lanka tour of South Africa.
On 15 June 2016 he was appointed the Fielding Coach of the Pakistan Cricket Team under the recommendation of the new head coach, Mickey Arthur. He worked as the Pakistan cricket fielding coach until June 2018.
In 2014 Rixon was dropped from the Australian coaching set up.
On 28 June 2011 he was appointed Fielding Coach of the Australian Cricket Team replacing Mike Young.
Since retiring from playing, he has been the coach of the New Zealand cricket team, New South Wales, Surrey, Hyderabad Heroes of the Indian Cricket League and currently, The Scots College, Sydney. He is currently coaching the Chennai Super Kings, the IPL Champions of 2010 season as a Fielding coach for the team's youngsters for IPL 2011 season .
He returned to NSW for the 1987-88 season but only played three first class games.
In 1985–86 Rixon joined the rebel tour of South Africa, but on his return was unable to rejoin the national team.
Rixon was selected on the 1985 Ashes tour of England as reserve keeper, with Phillips as first choice. Then Rixon announced he had signed to play for two seasons in South Africa. He was dropped from the Ashes squad and banned from first class cricket in Australia for two seasons.
Rixon played for the Australian XI in South Africa over two summers, 1985–86 and 1986-87.
Rod Marsh announced his retirement in 1984 prior to the tour of the West Indies. Australia picked Roger Woolley as the keeper, with Wayne Phillips as reserve. During that tour, Woolley was injured before the first test and Phillips was picked as keeper. Phillips ended up playing four tests in that position, scoring a century in one of them. He played one test as a specialist with Woolley keeping.
Wayne Phillips' performances was seen to be one of the few successes of the 1984 West Indies tour, and Australia kept him on as wicketkeeper for the first two tests against the West Indies at home over the 1984-85 summer. Phillips was then injured and Rixon was recalled to replace him for the third test. This followed Rixon scoring a century in the Sheffield Shield.
Rod Marsh elected not to tour Sri Lanka in 1982. However the selectors picked Roger Woolley as keeper instead.
Rixon was back up wicketkeeper on the 1981 Ashes tour of England.
In 1981-82 Rixon captained NSW in the absence of Rick McCosker.
Rixon was not selected for the 1978-79 Ashes, the selectors preferring John MacLean, and then Kevin Wright. Wright took the position of wicketkeeper for the 1979 tours of England and India. Rod Marsh returned to the test side in 1979-80 and remained Australia's first choice keeper until his retirement in 1984.
In 1977, the leading Australian players were signed to World Series Cricket which led to them being banned from official cricket. These players included the then-Australian wicketkeeper Rod Marsh and the reserve keeper on the 1977 Ashes, Richie Robinson. There was a position open for test wicketkeeper. Leading contenders included the experienced John MacLean, the Queensland captain, and Rixon.
Rixon was picked in the first test against India in 1977-78. He scored 9 and 5 with the bat but took five catches in a narrow Australian victory.
Rixon made his first class debut in 1974-75. He made a first class century, 115, but only scored 232 runs at 17.8 for the season. He took 27 catches and made 4 stumpings.
Rixon first came to public attention as a sixteen-year-old during the 1970/71 Marylebone Cricket Club tour of Australia, when England's wicket-keeper Alan Knott applauded Rixon's efforts for a Southern New South Wales team against the MCC. Rixon subsequently moved to Sydney to play initially for Waverley before transferring to Western Suburbs. He came into the Australian side as wicket-keeper in 1977–78 after Rodney Marsh joined World Series Cricket, losing his place on Marsh's return. In 1984–85 he came back in when Marsh retired and Wayne Phillips was injured.
Stephen John Rixon (born 25 February 1954, in Albury, New South Wales) is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He played in 13 Tests and 6 One Day Internationals between 1977 and 1985. He is currently the fielding coach of the Sri Lanka national cricket team.
In the second test, Rixon scored 50 runs in the first innings, taking part in a valuable 101 partnership with Captain Bob Simpson. He took six catches and his second innings knock of 23 was crucial in helping Australia win by 2 wickets. In the third test he took four catches and scored 11 and 12. In the 4th he scored 17 and 11 and took 2 catches. In the final test, which Australia won, he scored 32 and 13 and took 5 catches.