Brad Hogg

Brad Hogg

Australia

Full name George Bradley Hogg
Born February 6, 1971, Narrogin, Western Australia
Current age 36 years 23 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

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	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	95	55	22	660	71*	20.00	847	77.92	0	2	36	2	29	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	1	0	41	41	41.00	25	164.00	0	0	2	3	0	0
First-class	92	136	29	3679	158	34.38			4	24			53	0
List A	200	137	49	2387	94*	27.12			0	6			73	0
Twenty20	12	9	1	191	54	23.87	160	119.37	0	1			5	0

Bowling averages

	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	95	4317	3273	112	5/32	5/32	29.22	4.54	38.54	0	2	0
Twenty20 Int.	2	30	62	0	-	-	-	12.40	-	0	0	0
First-class	92	11918	6453	160	6/44		40.33	3.24	74.48		7	0
List A	200	7776	6057	206	5/23	5/23	29.40	4.67	37.74	1	3	0
Twenty20	12	251	317	21	4/9	4/9	15.09	7.57	11.95	2	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	India v Australia at Delhi - Oct 10-13, 1996
Last Test	Australia v Zimbabwe at Sydney - Oct 17-20, 2003
ODI debut	Australia v Zimbabwe at Colombo (RPS) - Aug 26, 1996
Last ODI	New Zealand v Australia at Hamilton - Feb 20, 2007
Twenty20 Int. debut	South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg - Feb 24, 2006
Last Twenty20 Int.	Australia v England at Sydney - Jan 9, 2007
First-class span	1993/94 - 2006/07
List A span	1993/94 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2004 - 2006/07

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. Boasting the Man-of-the-Series award against Bangladesh, Hogg passed 100 ODI wickets in April 2006 and still makes energetic contributions. Despite being a youthful 36, his days as an international are shortening and he was usually surplus to Australia's CB Series requirements until Andrew Symonds was injured. A second World Cup looms and will probably decide how long he stays in green and gold.