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| Full name | Matthew James Hoggard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1976-12-31)31 December 1976 (age 49) Pudsey,West Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Hoggy, Oggie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armfast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 602) | 29 June 2000 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 5 March 2008 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 165) | 3 October 2001 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 12 April 2006 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1996–2009 | Yorkshire(squad no. 14) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998/99–1999/00 | Free State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Leicestershire(squad no. 77) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew James Hoggard,MBE (born 31 December 1976) is a former Englishcricketer, who played international cricket forEngland cricket team from 2000 to 2008, playing bothTest cricket andOne Day Internationals. The 6' 2" Hoggard was a right arm fast-mediumbowler and right-handedbatsman.
He was the captain ofLeicestershire from 2010 until he announced his retirement in 2013. Previous to this he played forYorkshire for a total of thirteen years.
In May 2007 Hoggard's wife Sarah gave birth to a baby boy, Ernie, weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz.[1]
Hoggard began his cricketing journey at his local team, the famousBradford League club, Pudsey Congs CC. He started his domestic career infirst-class cricket in 1996. His debutList-A match followed in 1998.[2]
In Hoggard's first year as captain, he was involved in a row with Leicestershire chairman, Neil Davidson. Davidson had accused Hoggard and coachTim Boon of setting a 'very poor example', after Hoggard and Boon had accused Davidson of interfering in team affairs after a string of poor results.[3] Davidson eventually left the county in October 2010.[4] In his first season atGrace Road, Hoggard took an impressive 50 First Class wickets.
In 2011, Leicestershire finished bottom of theCounty Championship, but under Hoggard's captaincy, won theTwenty 20 Cup for the third time, making the Foxes the most successful English county side in the shortest form of the game.
In September 2013, Hoggard announced his retirement from cricket at the end of the season.[5] Unfortunately, Hoggard did not pick up any wickets in his last two games making theWorcestershire captain,Daryl Mitchell, his last victim in first-class cricket, this was before he announced his retirement.[6]
Hoggard was initially brought into the England side under the wings ofNasser Hussain andDuncan Fletcher in 2000. He was brought into the NatWest Series as a replacement for the injuredAndy Caddick.[7] Having only played two tests, Hoggard led the attack during England's 2001–2002 tour of India, and later took 7/63 againstNew Zealand.[8] He then suffered an "horrific" winter tour of Australia at the hands ofMatthew Hayden.[2]
During a successful tour of theWest Indies for Hoggard,[9] he took the34thhat-trick in Test cricket on 3 April 2004, helping England to bowl out theWest Indies for 94 in their second innings of the Third Test atKensington Oval. This took England to their first series win in theWest Indies since 1967–68, becoming the first visiting team to win three Tests in aCaribbean series. Hoggard also scored his highest score with the bat, 38 against theWest Indies in August 2004. He then took 12 wickets atJohannesburg againstSouth Africa.[2]
In the 4thTest match of the series in South Africa in January 2005 Hoggard took 12 wickets for 205. Of Englishmen, onlyJohnny Wardle, who took 12 for 89 inCape Town in 1956–57, has bettered his figures in South Africa since World War II. His match figures were England's best anywhere sinceIan Botham's 13 for 106 against India in 1979–80. During the2005 Ashes series, Hoggard scored 8 not out withAshley Giles againstAustralia in the fourth Test atTrent Bridge in the2005 Ashes series, which included a well-executed cover drive for four off aBrett Lee full toss, as England won by three wickets by reaching 129 to take a 2–1 series lead.
During the SecondAshes Test atAdelaide in December 2006, Hoggard took 8 wickets in the match, with first innings figures of 7/109, in very unfavourable bowling and especially swing bowling conditions, though England still lost. Hoggard missed the fifth test inSydney with a side-strain. It ended a run of 40 consecutive tests.[10] As of July 2007, Hoggard was sixth in the list of all-time English Test wicket-takers with 240 from 64 matches.
Hoggard performed well in the opening two warm up matches at the start of England's tour ofSri Lanka. In the second of these, against the Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI, Hoggard took 5–25 in a match that sawSteve Harmison andJames Anderson fall foul of injuries.[11]
After a disappointing performance where England lost the first test, Hoggard was dropped (along with longtime bowling partner, Steve Harmison) for the second test.
He said on 18 July 2008 onBBC Radio 5 Live'sTest Match Special programme that he believed he would not play for England again after being left out of the Test squads against bothNew Zealand andSouth Africa.[12]
With Hoggard's international career all but at an end, 2009 saw an increasing amount of him in the guise of a media personality. He released a book, which had aserialisation inThe Times, and contributed a regular column toCricinfo.[13]
Hoggard was considered ascapegoat for his sudden falling out of favour from theEngland and Wales Cricket Board. "We've had the same problems with the ECB since I started international cricket," he wrote in his book. "There were people slagging them off when I first came in and there are people still slagging them off. And it's not the ECB who pick the side anyway. See if you can find a player with a good word to say about the ECB. What are they going to do, sue me for telling the truth?"[14]
Hoggard was released by Yorkshire at the end of the 2009 season and immediately linked with an unexpected move to Leicestershire.[15] Hoggard was announced as the new captain of Leicestershire on 9 November.[16]
He is now an assistant coach for the women's T20 cricket teamLoughborough Lightning.[17] He also works as an after dinner speaker and cricket pundit.[18]
In August 2013, Hoggard featured as a contestant onCelebrity Masterchef.[19] In January 2020, Hoggard joined sports travel company Venatour as their Cricket Ambassador for their upcoming cricket tours.[20]
In November 2021, Hoggard was alleged to have made racist comments - which included things such as 'elephant washers' and 'you lot sit over there' - towardsAzeem Rafiq and other players of Asian heritage during his time at Yorkshire at the DCMS select committee hearing on 16 November 2021. It is understood that Hoggard apologised to Rafiq over the phone.[21]
In the2006 New Year Honours Hoggard was awarded the MBE for his role in the successful Ashes tournament. He was also named as one of fiveWisden Cricketers of the Year in April 2006. On 6 March 2006, Hoggard was officially ranked the 4th bestTest match bowler in the world. This was as a result of hisMan of the Match performance forEngland againstIndia in the First Test match atNagpur in March 2006. On 13 May 2006 he became the tenth England bowler to take 200 Test wickets.
In a 2015 analysis, statistician Andrew Samson calculated that Hoggard was England's best bowler, in terms of the batting average of the batsmen he dismissed in his career.[22]
Matthew Hoggard was a specialist orthodox swing bowler, and usually took the new ball for England in Test cricket. Hoggard's primary role in the team was to utilise the shine on the new ball to test the technique of top-order batsmen against the swinging delivery. If, due to pitch or atmospheric conditions, the new ball did not swing he could be ineffective.[2] Hoggard was seen as the consistent bowler in the team. Hoggard also had a sound defensive batting technique, but was not known for scoring runs, averaging only 7.40 with the bat. He could block up an end for the batsman at the other end to score, and was also used as anightwatchman.
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| Score | Fixture | Venue | Season | Score | Fixture | Venue | Season | |
| Tests | 38 | England vWest Indies | The Oval | 2004 | 7–61 | England vSouth Africa | Johannesburg | 2005 |
| ODI | 7 | England vIndia | Kochi | 2006 | 5–49 | England vZimbabwe | Harare | 2001 |
| FC | 89* | Yorkshire vGlamorgan | Leeds | 2004 | 7–49 | Yorkshire vSomerset | Leeds | 2003 |
| LA | 23 | Leicestershire Foxes vSurrey Brown Caps | The Oval | 2011 | 5–28 | Yorkshire Phoenix vLeicestershire Foxes | Leicester | 2000 |
| T20 | 18 | Yorkshire Phoenix vLancashire Lightning | Manchester | 2005 | 3–19 | Leicestershire Foxes vLancashire Lightning | Manchester | 2010 |
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