Simon Katich
Simon Katich is heading to Durban, the scene of the first Test between Australia and South Africa. It has taken him back to the time when Phillip Hughes, his 20-year-old opening partner at the time, set the cricketing world alight at the same venue.
Mondays were the worst. I grew up in Perth and, after West Coast entered the competition in 1987, pretty much everyone I knew changed allegiances from whichever VFL team they followed to the Eagles. Not me. I was a Richmond fan. The only one at school. The only one in my neighbourhood. So, …