25 Facts About Matthew Hoggard

Matthew Hoggard was the captain of Leicestershire from 2010 until he announced his retirement in 2013.

Matthew Hoggard began his cricketing journey at his local team, the famous Bradford League club, Pudsey Congs CC.

Matthew Hoggard started his domestic career in first-class cricket in 1996.

In 2011, Leicestershire finished bottom of the County Championship, but under Matthew Hoggard's captaincy, won the Twenty 20 Cup for the third time, making the Foxes the most successful English county side in the shortest form of the game.

In September 2013, Matthew Hoggard announced his retirement from cricket at the end of the season.

Unfortunately, Matthew Hoggard did not pick up any wickets in his last two games making the Worcestershire captain, Daryl Mitchell, his last victim in first-class cricket, this was before he announced his retirement.

Matthew Hoggard was initially brought into the England side under the wings of Nasser Hussain and Duncan Fletcher in 2000.

Matthew Hoggard was brought into the NatWest Series as a replacement for the injured Andrew Caddick.

Matthew Hoggard then suffered an "horrific" winter tour of Australia at the hands of Matthew Hayden.

Matthew Hoggard scored his highest score with the bat, 38 against the West Indies in August 2004.

Matthew Hoggard then took 12 wickets at Johannesburg against South Africa.

Matthew Hoggard missed the fifth test in Sydney with a side-strain.

Matthew Hoggard performed well in the opening two warm up matches at the start of England's tour of Sri Lanka.

Matthew Hoggard said on 18 July 2008 on Five Live's Test Match Special programme that he believed he would not play for England again after being left out of the Test squads against both New Zealand and South Africa.

Matthew Hoggard released a book, which had a serialisation in The Times, and contributed a regular column to Cricinfo.

Matthew Hoggard was considered a scapegoat for his sudden falling out of favour the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Matthew Hoggard was released by Yorkshire at the end of the 2009 season and immediately linked with an unexpected move to Leicestershire.

Matthew Hoggard is an assistant coach for the women's T20 cricket team Loughborough Lightning.

In January 2020, Matthew Hoggard joined sports travel company Venatour as their Cricket Ambassador for their upcoming cricket tours.

In November 2021, Matthew Hoggard was alleged to have made racist comments - which included things such as 'elephant washers' and 'you lot sit over there' - towards Azeem Rafiq and other players of Asian heritage during his time at Yorkshire at the DCMS select committee hearing on 16 November 2021.

Matthew Hoggard was named as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in April 2006.

On 6 March 2006, Matthew Hoggard was officially ranked the 4th best Test match bowler in the world.

Matthew Hoggard was a specialist orthodox swing bowler, and usually took the new ball for England in Test cricket.

Matthew Hoggard was seen as the consistent bowler in the team.

Matthew Hoggard had a sound defensive batting technique, but was not known for scoring runs, averaging only 7.40 with the bat.