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Full name George Bradley Hogg
Born February 6, 1971, Narrogin, Western Australia
Current age 37 years 94 days
Major teams Australia,Warwickshire,Western Australia
Nickname Docker, George
Playing role All-rounder
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm chinaman
Height
1.83 m
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
7
10
3
186
79
26.57
376
49.46
0
1
14
2
1
0
ODIs
123
65
26
790
71*
20.25
1004
78.68
0
2
41
5
36
0
T20Is
2
1
0
41
41
41.00
25
164.00
0
0
2
3
0
0
First-class
99
146
32
3992
158
35.01
4
27
55
0
List A
232
151
53
2596
94*
26.48
0
6
81
0
Twenty20
12
9
1
191
54
23.87
160
119.37
0
1
11
5
5
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
7
13
1524
933
17
2/40
4/133
54.88
3.67
89.6
0
0
0
ODIs
123
113
5564
4188
156
5/32
5/32
26.84
4.51
35.6
3
2
0
T20Is
2
2
30
62
0
-
-
-
12.40
-
0
0
0
First-class
99
13488
7333
181
6/44
40.51
3.26
74.5
9
0
List A
232
9238
7142
256
5/23
5/23
27.89
4.63
36.0
5
3
0
Twenty20
12
12
251
317
21
4/9
4/9
15.09
7.57
11.9
2
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v Australia at Delhi, Oct 10-13, 1996 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v India at Adelaide, Jan 24-28, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v Zimbabwe at Colombo (RPS), Aug 26, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v India at Sydney, Mar 2, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg, Feb 24, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I
Australia v England at Sydney, Jan 9, 2007 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1993/94
Last First-class
Australia v India at Adelaide, Jan 24-28, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1993/94
Last List A
Australia v India at Sydney, Mar 2, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Warwickshire v Somerset at Birmingham, Jul 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Victoria v Western Australia at Melbourne, Jan 10, 2007 scorecard
Profile
With his booming grin, zooming flipper and hard-to-pick wrong'un, Brad Hogg is Australia's most mercurial chinaman bowler since 'Chuck' Fleetwood-Smith in the 1930s. He announced himself to the world with a stupendous flipper to Zimbabwe's Andy Flower in the 2003 World Cup. Flower leapt back, waited for the away-spin and then slumped, hideously bamboozled, as the ball fizzed straight through on to his stumps. Until that moment, Hogg's cricketing trajectory had been anything but straightforward. Like Stuart MacGill, he had spent years in the shadow of Shane Warne. He went to that World Cup hoping to pick Warne's brain, and unexpectedly found himself filling Warne's boots. His initial Test opportunity, at Delhi way back in 1996, also arose as Warne's stand-in. He made 1 and 4, took 1 for 69, and was promptly dumped for the next seven years and 78 games. No other Australian has waited so long between his first and second Tests; Alan Hurst, dropped for 30 matches, was the previous record-holder.
During his time in the wilderness, Hogg learned to practise less and enjoy himself more. He began first-class life as a solid left-hand batsman, before flirting with chinamen in the nets one afternoon at the playful suggestion of his Western Australia coach Tony Mann. His batting has fallen away, although he hit a Pura Cup century in 2004-05, but his jack-in-a-box fielding makes up for it. Hogg used to be a postman - "I do my round like a Formula One driver," he once bragged - and has the ever-present smile of a postie who's never known yappy dogs or rainy days.
Claiming the Man-of-the-Series award against Bangladesh, Hogg passed 100 ODI wickets in April 2006, but was used strangely at home the following season after playing in the final of the Champions Trophy. Called on only once during the CB Series preliminary rounds, he was even released for domestic matches and seemed to be on the verge of exiting the national set-up. Cameron White's disappointing bowling turned the selectors back to Hogg, who then failed to get a wicket in the next five games. However, instead of being a World Cup passenger, he suddenly headed for the cockpit for an incredible journey. Batsmen found choosing a Caribbean bar easier than picking Hogg's tricky menu and he created as much destruction as Murali. Twenty-one wickets at 15.80 sparked many more smiles but he again struggled when given chances in the Test series against India, his eight wickets costing almost 60 apiece. Nevertheless, his decision to retire at the end of the 2007-08 summer caught many on the hop.
Cricinfo staff February 2008
