Brad Hogg

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Brad Hogg

Australia
Personal information
Full name George Bradley Hogg
Nickname George, Hoggy
Born 6 February 1971 (1971-02-06) (age 37)
Narrogin, Western Australia, Australia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Role All-rounder
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm chinaman
International information
Test debut (cap 367) 10 October 1996: v India
Last Test 28 January 2008: v India
ODI debut (cap 126) 26 August 1996: v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 2 March 2008: v India
ODI shirt no. 31
Domestic team information
Years Team
1994 - Western Australia
2004 Warwickshire
Career statistics
Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 7 123 99 232
Runs scored 186 790 3,992 2,596
Batting average 26.57 20.25 35.01 26.48
100s/50s 0/1 0/2 4/27 0/6
Top score 79 71* 158 94*
Balls bowled 1,524 5,564 13,488 9,238
Wickets 17 156 181 256
Bowling average 54.88 26.84 40.51 27.89
5 wickets in innings 0 2 9 3
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 2/40 5/32 6/44 5/23
Catches/stumpings 1/– 36/– 55/– 81/–

As of 05 March 2008
Source: Cricinfo.com

George Bradley Hogg (born February 6, 1971 in Narrogin, Western Australia), known as Brad Hogg, is an retired Australian cricketer. He is primarily a left arm wrist spinner (chinaman) bowler, although he is a handy left-handed batsman as well and is an excellent fielder.

His international career was revitalised after Shane Warne's absence from cricket in 2003 due to suspension from a drugs test and subsequent retirement from one-day cricket.[1] He is Australia's sixth most successful One Day International bowler and second best spinner in terms of wickets taken.[2] He was a member of Australia's victorious 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cup teams and is one of only 15 players to have won the Cup more than once.[3] He retired from International cricket on 4 March 2008.[4]

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[edit] Early life and career

Hogg grew up on a farm near Williams, Western Australia[5] and is a former pupil of Aquinas College, Perth.[6] Hogg made his first-class cricket and domestic limited overs debut for Western Australia in February 1994 as a middle order batsman[7]. He didn't begin to bowl left-arm wrist-spin until former Australian test leg-spinner Tony Mann asked him to bowl them in the nets as preparation for the batsmen to face NSW spinner David Freedman.[8]

[edit] National debut

In 1996, he was selected in the Australian team to tour India as a replacement for Warne who was injured. He made his Test debut against India in Delhi, taking 1/69 and making 1 and 4. He also played seven One Day International matches. However, the belief at the time was that he was merely a place-holder for Warne and he was discarded from the international squad for some time. Hogg was also in and out of the Western Australian squad for the next few years as he struggled to come to terms with unsympathetic pitches and poor returns with the ball. Hogg was absent from the international scene until called up to replace Warne during the 2002-03 VB Series (an annual tri-nations one day tournament in Australia) after Warne injured his shoulder. However, Warne then tested positive to a banned diuretic in a pre-World Cup drugs test, leaving Hogg to play as Australia's specialist spinner in Australia's Cup winning side and has filled that role since, due to Warne's retirement from the one day game.

Hogg was recalled to the Australian Test team to tour the West Indies in April 2003, where he played two matches (making his wait between his first and second Tests of seven years and 78 games the longest for an Australian). He also played against Zimbabwe at the SCG later that year, but was upstaged by part-time chinaman bowler Simon Katich, who took 6/90 for the match (Hogg took 3/119). He was left out of the Test team in 2004 but remained in the national one day team as the preferred spinner to Stuart MacGill. In 2005-06 he became a one-day only player with Western Australian selectors preferring to play young spinner Beau Casson ahead of Hogg in the state's Pura Cup side. However, with Casson's move to New South Wales in 2006-07, Hogg has regained his place in the first-class side. In 2007-08, after a four year layoff, Hogg was recalled to Test cricket to play against India after Stuart MacGill had to withdraw from the team due to suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome in his bowling hand.[9] On January 2, 2008, Hogg scored a Test-career-best 79 as part of a 173-run partnership with Andrew Symonds -- a 7th wicket record for both the Sydney Cricket Ground and Australia vs. India.[10]

Hogg's highest ODI score is 71 not out against England, and his best bowling figures in an innings are 5/32 against the West Indies. Hogg also works as a postman for Australia Post, and is a noted fitness fanatic, scoring the highest beep test result in the Australian team in 2005, with a score of 14.6.[11]

On 27 February 2008 Hogg announced that he will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of the Commonwealth Bank Series.[12][13] His test career (17 wickets at 54.88) was ultimately unremarkable, but his 156 one-day international wickets at 26.84 coupled with useful lower-order batting placed him among Australia's best one-day players.

[edit] Playing style

He is one of the few bowlers who bowls left-arm wrist spin in international cricket.[8] He has an excellent wrong'un and a well-disguised flipper,[14] which he used to bowl Andy Flower, who was then considered to be one of the world's best at playing spin bowling[15], during the 2003 World Cup. In his book, Walking to Victory, Adam Gilchrist described it as "one of the balls of the tournament." [16] During the 2007 Cricket World Cup Hogg beat Andrew Flintoff with two consecutive wrong'uns, with the second one resulting in Flintoff being given out stumped. [17]

Hogg is well known for his use of his tongue while bowling, poking it out just before he bowls, which is considered his trademark.[18]

[edit] Controversy

During the second test against India in Sydney it was alleged that Hogg called the Indian captain Anil Kumble and vice captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni "bastards". Hogg faced a ban of between two and four Test matches after being charged with the level three offence under the International Cricket Council's Code of conduct which refers to abuse by reference to a player's "race, religion, gender, colour, descent, or national or ethic origin." The hearing was set to take place on 14 January in Perth however the BCCI dropped the charges a few days later. [19][20]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stephen Brenkley. "Warne exit gives postman Hogg his red-letter day", 2003-02-13. Retrieved on 2008-02-27. 
  2. ^ Most Wickets in a Career - Australian ODIs. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
  3. ^ Multiple Cricket World Cup Winners
  4. ^ "Brad Hogg quits international cricket", The Age, 2008-02-27. Retrieved on 2008-02-27. 
  5. ^ Brad Hogg Launches Centenary of Country Week in Hometown of Williams (2006-08-08). Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  6. ^ Sports Of World - Brad Hogg Profile
  7. ^ NSW vs WA 1993/94 Sheffield Shield
  8. ^ a b "The return of the chinaman", 2003-03-01. Retrieved on 2008-02-27. 
  9. ^ MacGill heads for hand surgery (2007-12-05).
  10. ^ Border-Gavaskar Trophy - 2nd Test 2007/08. Retrieved on 2008-01-02.
  11. ^ Hogg posts top fitness record (2005-06-03).
  12. ^ Hogg quits in spin crisis
  13. ^ Hogg to quit international scene BBC News retrieved February 27, 2008
  14. ^ Chloe Saltau (2008-01-02). Hogg's flipper 'as good as Warnie's': skipper. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  15. ^ Andy Flower Cricinfo Profile (May 2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-25.
  16. ^ Gilchrist, Adam (2003). Walking to Victory. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 133. ISBN 0-7329-1138-9. 
  17. ^ Commentary, 35th Match, Super Eights: Australia v England at North Sound, Flintoff Innings (2007-04-08).
  18. ^ Peter English and Brydon Coverdale (2008-02-27). Hogg calls time on his career. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  19. ^ Australian cricketer Hogg charged for making offensive remark2008-01-08
  20. ^ India withdraw Hogg abuse charge;BBC Sport;2008-01-14

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Australia squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup (4th title)
8 Clark • 11 McGrath • 14 Ponting (c) • 17 Hodge • 18 Gilchrist • 23 Clarke • 25 Johnson • 28 Hayden • 31 Hogg • 32 Tait • 33 Watson • 48 Hussey • 57 Haddin • 58 Lee • 59 Bracken • 63 Symonds • Coach: Buchanan
Brett Lee was named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Stuart Clark
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Australia squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup (3rd title)
1 Ponting • 2 Gilchrist • 3 Bevan • 4 Bichel • 5 Bracken • 6 Gillespie • 7 Harvey • 8 Hauritz • 9 Hayden • 10 Hogg • 11 Lee • 12 Lehmann • 13 Maher • 14 Martyn • 15 McGrath • 16 Symonds • 17 Warne • 18 Watson • Coach: Buchanan
Jason Gillespie, Shane Warne and Shane Watson were named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament
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NAME Hogg, George Bradley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Narrogin, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH