29 Facts About Brad Hogg

George Bradley Hogg was born on 6 February 1971 and is a former Australian cricketer who played all formats of the game.

Brad Hogg was a left-arm wrist spin bowler, and a lower-order left-handed batsman.

Brad Hogg is Australia's ninth most successful One Day International bowler and second most successful spinner in terms of wickets taken.

Brad Hogg was a member of Australia's victorious 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cup teams.

Brad 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.

Brad 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.

Brad Hogg grew up on a sheep farm in Williams, Western Australia as an only child, and is a former pupil of Aquinas College, Perth.

Brad Hogg made his first-class cricket and domestic limited overs debut for Western Australia in February 1994 as a middle order batsman.

Brad Hogg did not begin to bowl left-arm wrist-spin until former Australian test leg-spinner Tony Mann asked him to bowl them in the nets as preparation for the batsmen to face NSW spinner David Freedman.

Brad Hogg was in and out of the Western Australian squad for the next few years as he struggled for form.

Brad Hogg was recalled to the Australian Test team to tour the West Indies in April 2003, where he played two matches.

Brad Hogg was left out of the Test team in 2004 but remained in the national one day team as the preferred spinner to Stuart MacGill.

Brad Hogg is a noted fitness fanatic, scoring the highest beep test result in the Australian team in 2005, with a score of 14.6.

On 27 February 2008, Brad Hogg announced his retirement from international cricket, effective after the Commonwealth Bank Series.

In September 2011, Brad Hogg was appointed coaching director of Cricket PNG and head coach of the Papua New Guinea national cricket team, replacing fellow Australian Andy Bichel.

Brad Hogg was due to coach the team at the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, but resigned in January 2012 after being recalled to play for Australia.

On 4 November 2011, Brad Hogg signed with the Perth Scorchers, one of the franchises in the Australian domestic Twenty20 competition, the Big Bash League.

Brad Hogg took 12 wickets in the tournament at an average of 13.5, better than any other spinner in the competition bettered in wickets only by James Faulkner and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan.

On 23 January 2012, on the back of his form with the Scorchers, Brad Hogg earned a recall to the Australian Twenty20 squad.

Brad Hogg was 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 players auction, and the Sri Lanka T20 Tournaments.

On 1 February 2012, Brad Hogg returned to international cricket at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in a Twenty20 international against India, returning figures of one wicket for 21 runs from four overs.

Brad Hogg has since been selected for the 2014 Australian T20 World Cup team, plus the three games against Pakistan in Dubai in the leadup to that competition.

On 7 February 2014, Brad Hogg was man of the match in the winning Big Bash final with his team the Perth Scorchers.

Brad Hogg was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders at the 2015 IPL auction as a backup to replace Narine who was sidelined halfway into the season due to 'suspect bowling action'.

Brad Hogg triumphed in the role and took 9 wickets in six games, and won two-man of the match awards before Narine assumed his position in the team again.

Brad Hogg made the surprising move from the Perth Scorchers to the Melbourne Renegades for BBL06.

Brad Hogg is one of the few bowlers who bowls left-arm wrist spin in international cricket.

Brad Hogg has an excellent wrong'un and a well-disguised flipper, which he used to bowl Andy Flower, who was then considered to be one of the world's best at playing spin bowling, during the 2003 World Cup.

Brad Hogg is well known for his use of his tongue while bowling, poking it out just before he bowls, which was considered his trademark.