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Full name George Bradley Hogg
Born February 6, 1971, Narrogin, Western Australia
Current age 34 years 157 days
Major teams Australia, Warwickshire, Western Australia
Playing role All-rounder
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm chinaman
Height 1.75 m
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 4 5 1 38 17* 9.50 136 27.94 0 0 2 0 0 0
ODIs 68 42 20 503 71* 22.86 634 79.33 0 2 25 1 18 0
First-class 89 130 27 3571 158 34.66 4 24 50 0
List A 165 117 45 2070 94* 28.75 0 6 58 0
Twenty-20 6 6 0 118 54 19.66 113 104.42 0 1 2 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 4 774 452 9 2/40 3/108 50.22 3.50 86.00 0 0 0
ODIs 68 3174 2386 82 5/32 5/32 29.09 4.51 38.70 0 2 0
First-class 89 11268 6145 145 6/44 42.37 3.27 77.71 5 0
List A 165 6214 4848 170 5/23 5/23 28.51 4.68 36.55 1 3 0
Twenty-20 6 131 142 13 4/9 4/9 10.92 6.50 10.07 2 0 0
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Test debut India v Australia at Delhi - Oct 10-13, 1996 scorecard
Last Test Australia v Zimbabwe at Sydney - Oct 17-20, 2003 scorecard
ODI debut Australia v Zimbabwe at Colombo (RPS) - Aug 26, 1996
scorecard
Last ODI England v Australia at Leeds - Jul 7, 2005 scorecard
First-class span 1993/94 - 2004/05
List A span 1993/94 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004
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 has 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 WA 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. Boasting two one-day Man of the Match awards in 2004-05,
his future, like his past, still hinges on the availability of Shane
Warne.
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