Brad Hogg

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Brad Hogg

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country = Australia
fullname = George Bradley Hogg
nickname = George, Hoggy
living = true
dayofbirth = 6
monthofbirth = 2
yearofbirth = 1971
placeofbirth = Narrogin, Western Australia
countryofbirth = Australia
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monthofdeath =
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placeofdeath =
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heightm = 1.83
batting = Left-hand bat
bowling = Left-arm chinaman
role = All-rounder
international = true
testdebutdate = 10 October
testdebutyear = 1996
testdebutagainst = India
testc

lasttestdate = 24 January
lasttestyear = 2008
lasttestagainst = India
odidebutdate = 26 August
odidebutyear = 1996
odidebutagainst = Zimbabwe
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lastodidate = 2 March
lastodiyear = 2008
lastodiagainst = India
odishirt = 31
club1 = Western Australia
year1 = 1994 -
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year2 = 2004
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wickets1 = 17
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fivefor1 = 0
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 2/40
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runs2 = 790
bat avg2 = 20.25
100s/50s2 = 0/2
top score2 = 71*
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wickets2 = 156
bowl avg2 = 26.84
fivefor2 = 2
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best bowling2 = 5/32
catches/stumpings2 = 36/–
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matches3 = 99
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100s/50s3 = 4/27
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wickets3 = 181
bowl avg3 = 40.51
fivefor3 = 9
tenfor3 = 0
best bowling3 = 6/44
catches/stumpings3 = 55/–
column4 = LA
matches4 = 233
runs4 = 2,606
bat avg4 = 26.32
100s/50s4 = 0/6
top score4 = 94*
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wickets4 = 257
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fivefor4 = 3
tenfor4 = n/a
best bowling4 = 5/23
catches/stumpings4 = 81/–
date = 17 September
year = 2008
source = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3323/3323.html CricketArchive

George Bradley Hogg (born 6 February 1971 in Narrogin, Western Australia), known as Brad Hogg, is a 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. [cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/warne-exit-gives-postman-hogg-his-redletter-day-597494.html|author=Stephen Brenkley|date=2003-02-13|title=Warne exit gives postman Hogg his red-letter day|accessdate=2008-02-27] He is Australia's sixth most successful One Day International bowler and second best spinner in terms of wickets taken. [cite web|url=http://stats.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?class=2;id=2;type=team|title=Most Wickets in a Career - Australian ODIs|publisher=Cricinfo|accessdate=2008-02-28] 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. [ [http://stats.cricinfo.com/statsguru/engine/stats/index.html?class=2;filter=advanced;final_type=1;groupby=players;orderby=matches;qualmin1=2;qualval1=matches;result=1;size=10;template=results;trophy=12;type=team Multiple Cricket World Cup Winners] ] He retired from International cricket on 4 March 2008 after the 2007-08 Commonwealth Bank Series.cite news|url=http://news.theage.com.au/brad-hogg-quits-international-cricket/20080227-1v9f.html|work=The Age|date=2008-02-27|title=Brad Hogg quits international cricket|accessdate=2008-02-27]

Early life and career

Hogg grew up on a farm near Williams, Western Australia [cite web|url=http://www.waca.com.au/news/detail.asp?ID=473|title=Brad Hogg Launches Centenary of Country Week in Hometown of Williams|date=2006-08-08|accessdate=2008-02-27] and is a former pupil of Aquinas College, Perth. [ [http://www.sportsofworld.com/2007-world-cup-of-cricket/teams/australia/brad-hogg.html Sports Of World - Brad Hogg Profile] ] Hogg made his first-class cricket and domestic limited overs debut for Western Australia in February 1994 as a middle order batsman [ [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/58/58471.html NSW vs WA 1993/94 Sheffield Shield] ] . 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.cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/cwc2003/hi/newsid_2810000/newsid_2811100/2811127.stm|title=The return of the chinaman
date=2003-03-01|accessdate=2008-02-27]

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.cite web|url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/323604.html|title=MacGill heads for hand surgery|date=2007-12-05] On 2 January 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. [cite web|url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ausvind/engine/current/match/291352.html|title=Border-Gavaskar Trophy - 2nd Test 2007/08|accessdate=2008-01-02]

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. [cite web|url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/210383.html|title=Hogg posts top fitness record|date=2005-06-03]

On 27 February 2008 Hogg announced that he will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of the Commonwealth Bank Series. [ [http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23284560-661,00.html Hogg quits in spin crisis] ] [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/7266273.stm "Hogg to quit international scene"] BBC News retrieved 27 February 2008] 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.

Playing style

He is one of the few bowlers who bowls left-arm wrist spin in international cricket. He has an excellent wrong'un and a well-disguised flipper, [cite web|author=Chloe Saltau|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/cricket/hoggs-flipper-as-good-as-warnies-skipper/2008/01/01/1198949817307.html|title=Hogg's flipper 'as good as Warnie's': skipper|date=2008-01-02|accessdate=2008-02-27] which he used to bowl Andy Flower, who was then considered to be one of the world's best at playing spin bowlingcite web|url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/55427.html|title=Andy Flower Cricinfo Profile|month=May | year=2007|accessdate=2008-02-25] , during the 2003 World Cup. In his book, "Walking to Victory", Adam Gilchrist described it as "one of the balls of the tournament." cite book | last=Gilchrist | first=Adam | authorlink=Adam Gilchrist | title=Walking to Victory | year=2003 | publisher=Pan Macmillan Australia | location=Sydney | id=ISBN 0-7329-1138-9 | pages=133] 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. cite web|url=http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/wc2007/engine/current/match/247491.html?batsman=4271;innings=1;view=commentary|title=Commentary, 35th Match, Super Eights: Australia v England at North Sound, Flintoff Innings|date=2007-04-08]

Hogg is well known for his use of his tongue while bowling, poking it out just before he bowls, which is considered his trademark. [cite web|url=http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/339989.html|title=Hogg calls time on his career|publisher=Cricinfo|author=Peter English and Brydon Coverdale|date=2008-02-27|accessdate=2008-02-27]

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. [ [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hty3YUiaVJwbUF8Kd5aoYHYiVobA Australian cricketer Hogg charged for making offensive remark] 2008-01-08] [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7177032.stm India withdraw Hogg abuse charge] ;BBC Sport;2008-01-14]

References

External links

* [http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/PLAYERS/AUS/H/HOGG_GB_02003328/ Brad Hogg] at Cricinfo

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