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Matthew Hoggard 
Personal information Full name Matthew James Hoggard MBE Born 31 December 1976
Pudsey, Leeds, EnglandNickname Hoggy, Oggie Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm fast medium Role Bowler International information National side England Test debut (cap 602) 29 June 2000 v West Indies Last Test 5 March 2008 v New Zealand ODI debut (cap 165) 3 October 2001 v Zimbabwe Last ODI 12 April 2006 v India ODI shirt no. 22 Domestic team information Years Team 1996–2009 Yorkshire (squad no. 14) 1999–2000 Free State 2010 – Leicestershire (squad no. 77) Career statistics Competition Tests ODIs FC LA Matches 67 26 222 147 Runs scored 473 17 1,752 130 Batting average 7.27 4.25 8.84 5.65 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/4 0/0 Top score 38 7 89* 23 Balls bowled 13,909 1,306 39,999 6,835 Wickets 248 32 746 201 Bowling average 30.50 36.00 27.48 25.69 5 wickets in innings 7 1 25 4 10 wickets in match 1 n/a 1 n/a Best bowling 7/61 5/49 7/49 5/28 Catches/stumpings 24/– 5/– 62/– 18/– Source: CricketArchive, 10 October 2011 Matthew James Hoggard MBE (born 31 December 1976) is an English cricketer. The 6' 2" Hoggard is a right arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman. He played international cricket for England cricket team from 2000-2008, playing both Test cricket and One Day International cricket. He is currently the captain of Leicestershire, a position he has held since 2010. Previous to this he played for Yorkshire for a total of thirteen years.
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Technique
Matthew Hoggard is a specialist orthodox swing bowler, and usually took the new ball for England in Test cricket. Hoggard's primary role in the team was to utilise the shine on the new ball to test the technique of top-order batsmen against the swinging delivery. If, due to pitch or atmospheric conditions, the new ball did not swing he could be ineffective.[1] Hoggard was seen as the consistent bowler in the team. Hoggard also has a sound defensive batting technique, but is not known for scoring runs, averaging only 7.40 with the bat. He can block up an end for the batsman at the other end to score, and is also used as a nightwatchman.
Career
Early career
Hoggard began his cricketing journey at his local team, the famous Bradford League club, Pudsey Congs CC. He started his domestic career in first-class cricket in 1996. His debut List-A match followed in 1998.[1]
2000–2003
Hoggard was initially brought into the England side under the wings of Nasser Hussain and Duncan Fletcher in 2000. He was brought into the NatWest Series as a replacement for the injured Andrew Caddick.[2] Having only played two tests, Hoggard led the attack during England's 2001–2002 tour of India, and later took 7/63 against New Zealand.[3] He then suffered an "horrific" winter tour of Australia at the hands of Matthew Hayden.[1]
2004
During a successful tour of the West Indies for Hoggard,[4] he took the 34th hat-trick in Test cricket on 3 April 2004, helping England to bowl out the West Indies for 94 in their second innings of the Third Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. This took England to their first series win in the West Indies since 1967–68, becoming the first visiting team to win three Tests in a Caribbean series. Hoggard also scored his highest score with the bat, 38 against the West Indies in August 2004. He then took 12 wickets at Johannesburg against South Africa.[1]
2005
In the 4th Test Match of the series in South Africa in January 2005 Hoggard took 12 wickets for 205. Of Englishmen, only Johnny Wardle, who took 12 for 89 in Cape Town in 1956–57, has bettered his figures in South Africa since World War II. His match figures were England's best anywhere since Ian Botham's 13 for 106 against India in 1979–80. During the 2005 Ashes series, Hoggard scored 8 not out with Ashley Giles against Australia in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge in the 2005 Ashes series, which included a well-executed cover drive for four off a Brett Lee full toss, as England won by three wickets by reaching 129 to take a 2–1 series lead.
2006
In the 2006 New Year's Honours List Hoggard was awarded the MBE for his role in the successful Ashes tournament. He was also named as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in April 2006. On 6 March 2006, Hoggard was officially ranked the 4th best Test match bowler in the world. This was as a result of his Man of the Match performance for England against India in the First Test match at Nagpur in March, 2006. On 13 May 2006 he became the tenth England bowler to take 200 Test wickets.
A graph showing Hoggard's test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time.
During the Second Ashes Test at Adelaide in December 2006, Hoggard took 8 wickets in the match, with first innings figures of 7/109, in very unfavourable bowling and especially swing bowling conditions, though England still lost. Hoggard missed the fifth test in Sydney with a side-strain. It ended a run of 40 consecutive tests.[5] As of July 2007, Hoggard was sixth in the list of all-time English Test wicket-takers with 240 from 64 matches.
Sri Lanka 2007–2008
Hoggard performed well in the opening two warm up matches at the start of England's tour of Sri Lanka. In the second of these, against the Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI, Hoggard took 5–25 in a match that saw Steve Harmison and James Anderson fall foul of injuries.[6]
New Zealand 2008
After a disappointing performance where England lost the first test, Hoggard was dropped (along with long time bowling partner, Steve Harmison) for the second test.
He said on 18 July 2008 on Five Live's Test Match Special programme that he believed he would not play for England again after being left out of the Test squads against both New Zealand and South Africa.[7]
2009
With Hoggard's international career all but at an end, 2009 saw an increasing amount of him in the guise of a media personality. He released a book, which had a serialisation in The Times, and contributed a regular column to Cricinfo.[8]
Hoggard was considered a scapegoat for his sudden falling out of favour the England and Wales Cricket Board. "We've had the same problems with the ECB since I started international cricket," he wrote in his book. "There were people slagging them off when I first came in and there are people still slagging them off. And it's not the ECB who pick the side anyway. See if you can find a player with a good word to say about the ECB. What are they going to do, sue me for telling the truth?"[9]
Hoggard was released by Yorkshire at the end of the 2009 season and immediately linked with an unexpected move to Leicestershire.[10] Hoggard was announced as the new captain of Leicestershire on 9 November.[11]
2010-present
In Hoggard's first year as captain, he was involved in a row with Leicestershire chairman, Neil Davidson. Davidson had accused Hoggard and coach Tim Boon of setting a 'very poor example', after Hoggard & Boon had accused Davidson of interfering in team affairs after a string of poor results.[12] Davidson eventually left the county in October 2010.[13] In his first season at Grace Road, Hoggard took an impressive 50 First Class wickets.
In 2011, Leicestershire finished bottom of the County Championship, but under Hoggard's captaincy, won the Twenty 20 Cup for the third time, making the Foxes the most successful English county side in the shortest form of the game.
Career Best Performances
as of 10 October 2011
Batting Bowling Score Fixture Venue Season Score Fixture Venue Season Tests 38 England v West Indies The Oval 2004 7-61 England v South Africa Johannesburg 2005 ODI 7 England v India Kochi 2006 5-49 England v Zimbabwe Harare 2001 FC 89* Yorkshire v Glamorgan Leeds 2004 7-49 Yorkshire v Somerset Leeds 2003 LA 23 Leicestershire v Surrey The Oval 2011 5-28 Yorkshire v Leicestershire Leicester 2000 T20 18 Yorkshire v Lancashire Manchester 2005 3-19 Leicestershire v Lancashire Manchester 2010 Personal life
In May 2007 Hoggard's wife Sarah gave birth to a baby boy, Ernie, weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz.[14] She suffered post-natal depression, the marriage took strain, and soon he was depressed, too, "doing a Tres, going cuckoo," as he told Michael Vaughan in the middle of an over on one occasion.[9]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Matthew Hoggard at CricInfo retrieved 27 November 2007
- ^ Hoggard called up for injured Caddick CricInfo retrieved 27 November 2007
- ^ Game effort brings reward for tireless Hoggard CricInfo retrieved 27 November 2007
- ^ England sweep to victory CricInfo retrieved 27 November 2007
- ^ Fifth Test, day one as it happened BBC News retrieved 27 November 2007
- ^ Hoggard boosts troubled England BBC News retrieved 26 November 2007
- ^ "Hoggard fears for England career". BBC News. 18 July 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7513948.stm. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ The Old Batsman. "The Ballad of Matthew Hoggard." The Old Batsman. 20 April 2009. (accessed April 29, 2009).
- ^ a b Quoted in The Old Batsman 2009.
- ^ Cricinfo staff (12 October 2009). "Yorkshire angered by Hoggard's reaction to departure". Cricinfo. http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/429272.html. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- ^ "Leicestershire win race for Hoggard". ECB. 9 November 2009. http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/domestic/counties/leicestershire/leicestershire-win-race-for-hoggard,308367,EN.html. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ^ "Foxes row rumbles on". Sky Sports. 24 August 2010. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12123_6333069,00.html. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ^ "Davidson quits Foxes". Sky Sports. 5 October 2010. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12123_6428438,00.html. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ^ England cricketer bowled over by birth of first child, Yorkshire Post, May 21, 2007.
External links
Leicestershire County Cricket Club – current squad England squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup 
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