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| Full name | George Bradley Hogg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1971-02-06)6 February 1971 (age 54) Narrogin,Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | George, Hoggie, Docker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-armwrist spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1993/94–2007/08 | Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011/12–2015/16 | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Sylhet Royals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Cape Cobras | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Rajasthan Royals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Wayamba Wolves | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Antigua Hawksbills | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Kolkata Knight Riders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016/17–2017/18 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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George Bradley Hogg (born 6 February 1971) is a former Australiancricketer who played all formats of the game. He was a left-armwrist spinbowler, and a lower-order left-handedbatsman.[1]
His earlier international career was revitalised byShane Warne's absence fromcricket in 2003 due tosuspension from a drugs test and subsequent retirement fromone-day cricket.[2] He is Australia's eleventh most successfulOne Day International bowler and third most successful spinner in terms of wickets taken.[3] He retired from International cricket on 4 March 2008 after the2007–08 Commonwealth Bank Series.[4] With his time representing Australia, Hogg won multiple ICC titles with the team: the2003 Cricket World Cup, the2007 Cricket World Cup, and the2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
In a surprise comeback to theTwenty20 (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 only player over 40 years of age to take 100 wickets in the T20 format.[5][6]
Hogg releasedThe Wrong'Un, an autobiography withGreg Growden, in November 2016[7] 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 inWilliams, Western Australia[8] and is a former pupil ofAquinas College, Perth. Later, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting & Marketing atCurtin University.[9] Hogg made hisfirst-class cricket and domesticlimited overs debut forWestern Australia in February 1994 as amiddle order batsman.[10] He did not begin to bowl left-arm wrist-spin until former Australian test leg-spinnerTony Mann asked him to bowl them in the nets as preparation for the batsmen to face NSW spinnerDavid Freedman.[11] In 1999 he made a brief foray in umpiringAustralian rules football, making his way up toWestar Rules Colts (under 18) level.[12] At the age of 45 years and 92 days he was the oldest to play in the IPL.[2]
In 1996, he was selected in theAustralian team to tourIndia as a replacement for Warne who was injured. He made hisTest debut against India in Delhi, taking 1/69 and making 1 and 4. He also played sevenOne Day International matches. However, the belief at the time was that he was merely a place-holder for Warne and he was discarded from the international squad for some time. Hogg was also in and out of the Western Australian squad for the next few years as he struggled for form. Hogg was absent from the international scene until called up to replace Warne during the 2002–03 VB Series (an annual tri-nations one day tournament in Australia) after Warne injured his shoulder. However, Warne then tested positive to a banned diuretic in a pre-World Cup drugs test, leaving Hogg to play as Australia's specialist spinner in Australia's Cup winning side and filled that role until his own retirement, this was due to Warne's retirement from the one day game.
Hogg was recalled to the Australian Test team to tour the West Indies in April 2003, where he played two matches. The gap of 78 games between his Test appearances is the equal-longest such run for an Australian.[13] He also played against Zimbabwe at theSCG later that year, but was upstaged by part-timeslow left-arm wrist-spinSimon Katich, who took 6/90 for the match (Hogg took 3/119). He was left out of the Test team in 2004 but remained in the national one day team as the preferred spinner toStuart MacGill. In 2005–06, he became a one-day only player withWestern Australian selectors preferring to play young spinnerBeau Casson ahead of Hogg in the state'sPura Cup side. However, with Casson's move to New South Wales in 2006–07, Hogg regained his place in the first-class side. In 2007–08, after a four-year layoff, Hogg was recalled to Test cricket to play against India after Stuart MacGill had to withdraw from the team due to suffering fromcarpal tunnel syndrome in his bowling hand.[14]
During thesecond Test against India in Sydney in January 2008, Hogg scored a Test-career-best 79 as part of a 173-run partnership withAndrew Symonds — a 7th wicket record for both theSydney Cricket Ground and Australia vs. India.[15] It was alleged that in that match Hogg called the Indian captainAnil Kumble and vice-captainMahendra Singh Dhoni "bastards". Hogg faced a ban of between two and four Test matches after being charged with the level three offence under theInternational Cricket Council's Code of conduct which refers to abuse by reference to a player's "race, religion, gender, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin." The hearing was set to take place on 14 January in Perth, but theBCCI dropped the charges a few days later.[16][17]
Hogg's highest ODI score is 71not out againstEngland, and his best bowling figures in an innings are 5/32 against theWest Indies. Hogg is a noted fitness fanatic, scoring the highestbeep test result in the Australian team in 2005, with a score of 14.6.[18]
On 27 February 2008, Hogg announced his retirement from international cricket, effective after theCommonwealth Bank Series.[19][20] His test career (17 wickets at 54.88) was ultimately unremarkable, but his 156 One Day International wickets at 26.84 coupled with useful lower-order batting placed him among Australia's best one-day players.
In September 2011, Hogg was appointed coaching director ofCricket PNG and head coach of thePapua New Guinea national cricket team, replacing fellow AustralianAndy Bichel.[21] He was due to coach the team at the2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, but resigned in January 2012 after being recalled to play for Australia.[22]
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On 4 November 2011, Hogg signed with thePerth Scorchers, one of the franchises in the Australian domestic Twenty20 competition, theBig Bash League. He took 12 wickets in the tournament at an average of 13.5, better than any other spinner in the competition bettered in wickets only byJames Faulkner andRana Naved-ul-Hasan. On 23 January 2012, on the back of his form with the Scorchers, Hogg earned a recall to the Australian Twenty20 squad. He was also picked up bySylhet Royals for the inauguralBangladesh Premier League,[23] theNashua Mobile Cape Cobras for the South African T20 League, theRajasthan Royals in theIndian Premier League players auction,[24] and the Sri Lanka T20 Tournaments.
On 1 February 2012, Hogg returned to international cricket at theSydney Olympic Stadium in a Twenty20 internationalagainst India, returning figures of one wicket (that ofVirat Kohli) for 21 runs from four overs.[25] In the second match of the Twenty20 series at theMelbourne Cricket Ground, he took the wicket ofVirender Sehwag in his first over,[26] and ended up with bowling figures of 1/19.
Hogg has since been selected for the 2014 Australian T20 World Cup team, plus the three games against Pakistan in Dubai in the leadup to that competition.[27]
On 7 February 2014, Hogg was man of the match in the winning Big Bash final with his team the Perth Scorchers. Over the tournament, Hogg had an economy rate of 6.19, the fifth best by a spinner in the tournament.[28] This earned him a recall to the Australian T20I team for the series in South Africa and the2014 ICC World Twenty20. On 12 March that year he became the oldest player to play in T20I's, at 43 years and 34 days.[29][30]
He was bought by theKolkata Knight Riders at the2015 IPL auction as a backup to replaceNarine who was sidelined halfway into the season due to 'suspect bowling action'. Hogg triumphed in the role and took 9 wickets in six games,[31] and won two-man of the match awards before Narine assumed his position in the team again.[32][33]
On 28 April 2015, he became the oldest player ever to feature in an IPL match when he played againstChennai Super Kings at the age of 44 years and 81 days.
He made headlines again in 2015 when he re-signed for the 2015/16 Perth Scorchers team in the BBL with his unique comedy announcement.[34]
Hogg made the surprising move from the Perth Scorchers to the Melbourne Renegades forBBL06.[35] Approaching BBL08, he was left unsigned and has not featured in any form of cricket since. The Melbourne Renegades ultimately won the title that season.
He is one of the few bowlers who bowls left-arm wrist spin in international cricket.[11] He has an excellentwrong'un and a well-disguisedflipper,[36] which he used to bowlAndy Flower, who was then considered to be one of the world's best at playingspin bowling,[37] during the2003 World Cup. In his book,Walking to Victory,Adam Gilchrist described it as "one of the balls of the tournament."[38] During the2007 Cricket World Cup, Hogg beatAndrew Flintoff with two consecutive wrong'uns, with the second one resulting in Flintoff being given out stumped.[39]
Hogg is well known for his use of his tongue while bowling, poking it out just before he bowls, which was considered his trademark.[40]
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