Tom Hogan

Personal information

Full name

Tom George Hogan

Born

23 September 1956 (age 60)
Merredin, Western Australia

Batting style

Right-hand bat

Bowling style

Slow left-arm orthodox

International information

National side

Australia

Test debut (cap 318)

22 April 1983 v Sri Lanka

Last Test

28 April 1984 v West Indies

ODI debut (cap 73)

31 January 1983 v New Zealand

Last ODI

5 October 1984 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1981–1990

Western Australia

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	7	16	80	44
Runs scored	205	72	1756	217
Batting average	18.63	9.00	20.18	11.42
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	1/6	0/0
Top score	42*	27	115*	33
Balls bowled	1436	917	17442	2404
Wickets	15	23	209	51
Bowling average	47.06	24.95	35.87	31.56
5 wickets in innings	1	–	9	–
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	–	n/a
Best bowling	5/66	4/33	8/86	4/33
Catches/stumpings	2/–	10/–	52/–	20/–

Source: CricketArchive, 24 October 2013

Tom George Hogan (born 23 September 1956, Merredin, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer.

Hogan was a left arm spinner who played in seven Tests and 16 One Day Internationals for Australia in 1983 and 1984.

Hogan made his debut for Western Australia in 1981-82. He scored 70 in a game against Victoria and 49 against WA. He took 20 wickets at 36.75 for the summer.

Hogan had a strong 1982-83 summer. He scored 72 against NSW and took eight wickets against Qld.

At the end of the summer he was picked in Australia's one day team to play New Zealand, replacing Dennis Lillee who was made 12th man. He took 2-42 and made 4 not out. He was kept on in the squad. He was picked on a 1983 tour of Sri Lanka, one of two spinners (the other was Bruce Yardley). By the end of the summer he had taken 35 first class wickets at 26.82 - out of the spinners, only Bruce Yardley and Murray Bennett had taken more.

Hogan was picked in the first ODI. He had an excellent game, scoring 27 off 25 balls, taking a catch and earning bowling figures of 3-27. Things were harder in the 2nd ODI, Hogan going for 1-62.

He took 3-37 and 3-42 in a tour game against the Sri Lankan Board President's XI. He was selected in the test, bowling in tandem with Yardley. Hogan struggled in his first innings, going for 1-51, but did superbly in the second, taking 5-66 and helping Australia win by an innings. He made 12 wickets at 16 for the tour, Australia's best performing bowler.

These efforts saw Hogan picked as the sole specialist spinner for the 1983 World Cup. He was picked over Bruce Yardley, who then retired from international cricket.

Hogan was picked to play against India - he took the place of Dennis Lillee who was made 12th man. Hogan took 2-48. He kept his place for the next game, against Zimbabwe, taking 2-33. He went to 1-31 in the loss against India and 1-60 against West Indies.

Hogan was picked in the Australian side for the first test against Pakistan. However he was made 12th man. Australia won the game easily and kept the same twelve for the second club. Hogan took 3-91 and 1-107 in a shield game and was 12th man again.

However an injury to Carl Rackemann saw Hogan selected for the 3rd test. He suffered badly at the hands of the Pakistan batsman, going for 1-107 and was dropped for the squad for the fourth and fifth test in favour of Murray Bennett and Greg Matthews.

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