brad hogg Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
brad hogg is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
George Bradley Hogg
Born
February 06, 1971, Narrogin, Western Australia
Age
52 years old
Nicknames
Docker, George
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Left arm Wrist spin
Playing Role
Allrounder
Height
1.83 m
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 7 | 123 | 15 | 21 |
Inn | 10 | 65 | 4 | 6 |
Runs | 186 | 790 | 55 | 22 |
Avg | 26.57 | 20.26 | 13.75 | 7.33 |
SR | 49.47 | 78.69 | 141.03 | 100.0 |
HS | 79 | 71 | 41 | 13 |
NO | 3 | 26 | 0 | 3 |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 14 | 41 | 3 | 1 |
6s | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 7 | 123 | 15 | 21 |
Inn | 13 | 113 | 15 | 21 |
Balls | 1524 | 5564 | 294 | 458 |
Runs | 933 | 4188 | 373 | 570 |
Wkt | 17 | 156 | 7 | 23 |
BBI | 40 / 2 | 32 / 5 | 31 / 2 | 29 / 2 |
BBM | 133 / 4 | 32 / 5 | 31 / 2 | 29 / 2 |
Eco | 3.67 | 4.52 | 7.61 | 7.47 |
Avg | 54.88 | 26.85 | 53.29 | 24.78 |
5W | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- Antigua Hawksbills
- Cape Cobras
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Melbourne Renegades
- Perth Scorchers
- Rajasthan Royals
- Trinbago Knight Riders
- Warwickshire
- Western Australia
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Born on February 6, 1971, Brad Hogg belonged to one of the rare species of spinners. He was a slow left arm chinaman bowler with a broad smile, a difficult to read flipper and the occasional wrong uns which left even the best of the batsmen flummoxed.
Andy Flower was one such recipient of Hogg's magic. Being one of the best players of spin, Flower was completely foxed by a zooming flipper and was castled during a league match of the 2003 World Cup. Hogg had announced himself to the world. In fact he was very lucky to have played a part in the World Cup winning squad after being a late replacement to Shane Warne who failed a dope test just hours before Australia's tournament opener against Pakistan. Hogg had gone into the tournament as the 2nd spinner behind Warne, but had now emerged as their primary spinner.
Hogg spent most of his career as an understudy under Warne, just like another leg-spinning genius, Stuart MacGill. He debuted against India in the one-off Delhi Test against India in 1996 and had very modest returns. His next Test opportunity came after a span of seven years and 78 tests, an Australian record. Hogg played 7 Tests with very average returns and with few wickets to boot.
His ODI career though was markedly different. He had 123 appearances for his country and ended up with 156 wickets with a best effort of 5/32 against the West Indies in MCG. He was also a part of two World Cup winning Australian sides in 2003 and 2007 thus becoming just one of the 15 players to have won a World Cup medal more than once.
Hogg was a nuisance as a batsman as the Indians found out during the ill-fated Sydney test of 2008. The English bowlers had suffered a similar fate when Hogg rescued Australia from a perilous 148/6 to a handy 229, enough to give them victory in the 2nd final of the VB series in 2003.
During the second test against India in Sydney, 2008, it was alleged that Hogg called the Indian captain Anil Kumble and vice-captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni \"bastards\". Hogg faced a ban of between two and four Test matches after being charged with the level three offence under the International 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 however the BCCI dropped the charges a few days later.
Hogg retired from all forms of cricket after the 2008 Commonwealth bank tri-series but has since returned to domestic T20 cricket by signing up for the Perth Scorchers in the Australian Big Bash League. He took 12 wickets in the League at an average of 13.5 and bowled way better than any other spinner. On the back of his stupendous form, he was drafted into the Australian T20 squad in January 2012. He was also picked up by Sylhet Royals for the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League, the Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras for the South African T20 League, the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League player auctions and the Sri Lanka T20 Tournaments.
In February 2012, he was selected for the Australian T20I squad to play against India and he took the all important wicket of Kohli. He was later selected for the 3-match series against Pakistan in Dubai and was also part of the squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh in 2014.
He put up a sterling Man of the Match performance in the BBL final of 2014 to help his side, Perth Scorchers bag the title. Over the entire tournament, he had a measly economy of 6.10, helping him come back into the national T20 side at a ripe age of 43 for the ICC World T20 2014 held in Bangladesh, making him the oldest player until then to have represented their country in the format. His performances also helped him bag a lucrative IPL contract with the Kolkata Knight Riders, as a backup for Sunil Narine, who was out due to a suspect bowling action. He continued to play for KKR in the 2016 season as well with good success, grabbing a Man of the Match in their first game against Delhi. He remains the oldest player thus far to have played in the IPL.
As of May 2016
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
With his wide grin, zooming flipper and hard-to-pick wrong'un, Brad Hogg was Australia's most mercurial left-arm wristspinner since Chuck Fleetwood-Smith in the 1930s.
Hogg, who began first-class life as a solid left-hand batter before flirting with wristspin in the nets one afternoon at the playful suggestion of his Western Australia coach Tony Mann, announced himself to the world with a stupendous flipper that bowled Zimbabwe's Andy Flower in the 2003 World Cup. Until then Hogg's cricketing trajectory had been anything but straightforward. Like Stuart MacGill, he had spent years in the shadow of Shane Warne. He got a chance at that World Cup only because Warne was banned for taking a diuretic. Hogg's first Test opportunity, in Delhi way back in 1996, also arose as a chance to stand in for Warne. He made 1 and 4, took 1 for 69, and was promptly dumped for the next seven years and 78 games.
In April 2006 he passed 100 ODI wickets and was Player of the Series against Bangladesh, but he 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, but Cameron White's disappointing bowling turned the selectors back to Hogg, who then failed to get a wicket in the next five games. However, at the 2007 World Cup, he was destructive, taking 21 wickets at 15.80.
He struggled again when given chances in the Test series against India, his eight wickets costing almost 60 apiece. Still, his decision to retire at the end of the 2007-08 summer caught many on the hop. His decision to come back was just as unexpected, as was the fact that his career continued till close to his 47th birthday. After a brief stint as a commentator, he returned to play grade cricket in Perth. That led to a surprise call-up for Perth Scorchers in the 2011-12 BBL, and at 40, a recall to the national T20I squad. Then came a stint in the IPL for Rajasthan Royals, where he took ten wickets in nine games and went at just over seven runs an over in his first IPL season. In 2015, his nine wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders came at just 16 apiece, and his economy rate was below seven.
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 has never known yappy dogs or rainy days.