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Brad Hogg

Brad Hogg
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Personal information
Full name George Bradley Hogg
Born (1971-02-06) 6 February 1971 (age 46)
Narrogin, Western Australia, Australia
Nickname George, Hoggy, Docker
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm chinaman
Role Bowling All Rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 367) 10 October 1996 v India
Last Test 24 January 2008 v India
ODI debut (cap 126) 26 August 1996 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 2 March 2008 v India
ODI shirt no. 31
T20I debut (cap 18) 24 February 2006 v South Africa
Last T20I 23 March 2014 v Pakistan
T20I shirt no. 31 / 71
Domestic team information
Years Team
1994–2007 Western Australia
2004 Warwickshire
2011–2015 Perth Scorchers
2012 Sylhet Royals
2012–2014 Rajasthan Royals
2012 Cape Cobras
2012 Wayamba Wolves
2015–2016 Antigua Hawksbills
2016 Kolkata Knight Riders
2016-present Melbourne Renegades
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 7 123 99 233
Runs scored 186 790 3,992 2,606
Batting average 26.57 20.25 35.01 26.32
100s/50s 0/1 0/2 4/27 0/6
Top score 79 71* 158 94*
Balls bowled 1,524 5,564 13,488 9,298
Wickets 17 156 181 257
Bowling average 54.88 26.84 40.51 28.06
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/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 11 December 2016

George Bradley "Brad" Hogg (born 6 February 1971) is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm wrist spin bowler, and a lower-order left-handed batsman.

His earlier international career was revitalised by Shane Warne's absence from cricket in 2003 due to suspension from a drugs test and subsequent retirement from one-day cricket. He is Australia's ninth most successful One Day International bowler and second most successful spinner in terms of wickets taken. He was a member of Australia's victorious 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cup teams. He retired from International cricket on 4 March 2008 after the 2007-08 Commonwealth Bank Series. In a surprise comeback to the T20 format at the inaugural Big Bash League in 2011, Hogg became a cult hero of the short form, bringing about a call-up to the 2012 and 2014 T20 World Cup Australia sides, as well as international T20 contracts around the world. Hogg is the world's current oldest top level cricket player, and the only player over 40 years of age to take 100 wickets in the T20 format.

Hogg released 'The Wrong'Un' an autobiography with Greg Growden writer in November 2016 and enjoys a career as a cricket commentator and has become a popular media personality between cricket commitments.

Hogg grew up on a sheep farm in Williams, Western Australia and is a former pupil of Aquinas College, Perth. Later, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting & Marketing at Curtin University. Hogg made his first-class cricket and domestic limited overs debut for Western Australia in February 1994 as a middle order batsman. He did not 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. In 1999 he made a brief foray in umpiring Australian rules football, making his way up to Westar Rules Colts (under 18) level.


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