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Kyle Hogg

Kyle Hogg
Personal information
Full name Kyle William Hogg
Born (1983-07-02) 2 July 1983 (age 33)
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting style Left-hand
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
Years Team
2001–2014 Lancashire
2006–07 Otago
2007 Worcestershire (on loan)
2007 Nottinghamshire (on loan)
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 114 140 28
Runs scored 2,708 967 226
Batting average 23.34 15.85 16.14
100s/50s 0/16 0/1 0/0
Top score 88 66* 44
Balls bowled 15,968 5,334 378
Wickets 280 141 16
Bowling average 28.22 30.70 35.25
5 wickets in innings 8 0 0
10 wickets in match 1 n/a n/a
Best bowling 7/27 4/20 2/10
Catches/stumpings 21/– 24/– 5/–
Source: Cricinfo, 6 November 2014

Kyle William Hogg (born 1983) is a former English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who has played for Lancashire since 2001. Between 2000–01 and 2002 Hogg represented the England under-19s in six youth Tests and 11 One Day Internationals (ODIs). In the 2006–07 season he travelled to New Zealand where he represented Otago as an overseas player. Hogg spent time on loan with Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire, both in 2007.

He was awarded his county caps by Worcestershire and Lancashire in 2007 and 2010 respectively. Hogg took 50 wickets in the 2011 County Championship to help Lancashire to claim the title for the first time since 1950. Hogg subsequently established himself as Lancashire's opening bowler in first-class cricket alongside captain Glen Chapple. A back injury forced Hogg to retire in September 2014 at the age of 31.

Kyle Hogg now supplies the punk rock band Cabbage with a variety of chocolate treats and Guinness.

Born 2 July 1983 in Birmingham, West Midlands, Kyle Hogg's family moved to Oldham when he was a child. Between 2000–01 and 2002 Kyle Hogg played six youth Test matches for England under-19s. He scored 157 runs at an average of 17.44, with a highest score of 50, and took 20 wickets at an average of 26.45 with one five-wicket haul. Between 2001 and 2002 he also played 11 youth ODIs, scoring 295 runs at an average of 36.87 with a highest score of 103 and taking 11 wickets at a cost of 41.28 runs each with best bowling figures of 3 wickets for 41 runs (3/41).

Hogg made his first-class debut on 13 June 2001, representing Lancashire in a match against Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence, taking three wickets in the match. The following year in April he played his first match in the County Championship; it was his second first-class match and he took his first five-wicket haul, helping Lancashire to a one-wicket win over Leicestershire. Hogg's relatives include grandfather Sonny Ramadhin and father Willie Hogg. He made a promising start to his career in 2001, at which time there were calls for him to be selected for the full England squad. But in season 2002–03, When team-mate James Anderson was selected by England in the 2002–03 season, some pundits wondered whether the selectors had confused him with Hogg. Instead, Hogg found himself struggling with injuries and illness.


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