Brad Hogg
Brad Hogg was born in Narrogin, Western Australia, Australia on February 6th, 1971 and is the Cricket Player. At the age of 53, Brad Hogg biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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George Bradley "Brad" Hogg (born 6 February 1971) is an Australian cricketer, who has played all formats of the game.
He is a left-arm wrist spin bowler, and a lower-order left-handed batsman.His earlier international career was revitalised by Shane Warne's absence from cricket in 2003 due to suspension from a drugs test and subsequent retirement from one-day cricket.
He is Australia's ninth most successful One Day International bowler and second most successful spinner in terms of wickets taken.
He was a member of Australia's victorious 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cup teams.
He retired from International cricket on 4 March 2008 after the 2007–08 Commonwealth Bank Series.In a surprise comeback to the 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 world's current oldest top level cricket player, and the only player over 40 years of age to take 100 wickets in the T20 format.Hogg released The Wrong'Un, an autobiography with Greg Growden, in November 2016 and enjoys a career as a cricket commentator and has become a popular media personality between cricket commitments.
Early life and career
Hogg was born as an only child on a sheep farm in Williams, Western Australia, and is a former student of Aquinas College, Perth. He later graduated at Curtin University with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting and Marketing. In February 1994, Hogg made his first-class cricket and domestic limited overs debut for Western Australia as a middle order batsman. He did not begin to bowl left-arm wristspinner Tony Mann until he asked for them to bowl them in the nets as preparations for the batsmen's match against NSW spinner David Freedman. In 1999, he made a brief foray in umpiring Australian rules football, progressing to Westar Rules Colts (under 18) level.
International career
In 1996, he was chosen in the Australian team to tour India as a replacement for Warne who had been hospitalized. He made his Test debut against India in Delhi, taking 1/69 and making 1 and 4. He has appeared in seven One Day International matches. However, the suspicion at the time was that he was simply a place-holder for Warne, and he had been barred from the international squad for a long time. Hogg continued to be in and out of the Western Australian squad for the next few years as he tried to find form. After Warne sustained his shoulder injury, Hogg was out of action on the international stage until he was called up to replace Warne during the 2002-03 VB Series (an annual tri-nations one day tournament in Australia). Warne later found positive to a banned diuretic in a pre-World Cup drug test, allowing Hogg to play as Australia's top spinner and filling the role until his own retirement, owing to Warne's withdrawal from the one-day sport.
In April 2003, Hogg was sent by the Australian Test team to tour the West Indies, where he appeared in two Tests (the longest for an Australian). He also played against Zimbabwe at the SCG later this year, but was upstaged by part-time left-arm wrist wrist-spin Simon Katich, who took 6/90 for the match (Hogg took 6/119). In 2004, he was kicked out of the Test team, but he stayed on the national one-day squad as the preferred spinner to Stuart MacGill. In 2005–06, he became a one-day only player for Western Australian selectors who wished to play teenage spinner Beau Casson ahead of Hogg in the state's Pura Cup tournament. Hogg has regained his place in the first-class group following Casson's transfer to New South Wales in 2006-07. Hogg was called back to Test cricket against India in 2007-08 after being sick from carpal tunnel syndrome in his bowling hand. Hogg scored a Test-career-best 79 runs as part of Andrew Symonds' 173-run partnership, marking his seventh wicket record for both the Sydney Cricket Ground and Australia vs. India.
Hogg's highest ODI rating against England is 718 not out, and his best bowling figures in an innings are 5/32 against the West Indies. Hogg is a well-known fitness enthusiast who achieved the highest beep test result in the Australian team in 2005 with a score of 14.6.
Hogg announced his international cricket retirement on February 27, 2008, shortly after the Commonwealth Bank Series's conclusion. His test career (17 wickets at 54.88) was unremarkable, but his 156 One Day International wickets at 26.84, as well as good lower-order batting, put him among Australia's top one-day players.