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Full name Matthew James Hoggard
Born December 31, 1976, Leeds, Yorkshire
Current age 31 years 138 days
Major teams England,Free State,Yorkshire
Nickname Oggie
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height
6 ft 2 in
Education Pudsey Grangefield
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
67
92
27
473
38
7.27
2090
22.63
0
0
42
0
24
0
ODIs
26
6
2
17
7
4.25
30
56.66
0
0
0
0
5
0
First-class
169
215
62
1367
89*
8.93
0
3
48
0
List A
125
38
20
66
7*
3.66
0
0
14
0
Twenty20
6
2
1
19
18
19.00
13
146.15
0
0
3
0
1
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
67
122
13909
7564
248
7/61
12/205
30.50
3.26
56.0
13
7
1
ODIs
26
26
1306
1152
32
5/49
5/49
36.00
5.29
40.8
0
1
0
First-class
169
31078
15981
592
7/49
26.99
3.08
52.4
20
1
List A
125
5905
4385
174
5/28
5/28
25.20
4.45
33.9
2
4
0
Twenty20
6
6
132
221
7
3/23
3/23
31.57
10.04
18.8
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Lord's, Jun 29-Jul 1, 2000 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v England at Hamilton, Mar 5-9, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Zimbabwe v England at Harare, Oct 3, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI
India v England at Jamshedpur, Apr 12, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1996
Last First-class
Durham v Yorkshire at Chester-le-Street, May 14-16, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1998
Last List A
Kent v Yorkshire at Canterbury, Sep 9, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Derbyshire v Yorkshire at Derby, Jul 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Lancashire v Yorkshire at Manchester, Jul 1, 2005 scorecard
Profile
Big, bustling, and with the sort of energy coaches kill for, Hoggard shapes
the ball away from the right-hander at pace and is surprisingly slippery off
the pitch, although he can be Fraserishly ineffective when the ball refuses
to move. Hoggard was one of the leading lights among Yorkshire's bright
young things, but it was under the astute tutelage of Duncan Fletcher and Nasser Hussain that he grew the senior bowler of the England quartet that swept all before them in an unbeaten year 2004. His apprenticeship was long and at times tortuous. With just two Tests under his belt, Hoggard was chosen to lead the attack on an arduous tour of India in 2001-02, where he charged in obediently and accurately, and capped his winter with figures of 7 for 63 against New Zealand at Christchurch. By the end of the following summer he had been voted the bowler of the season by readers of Wisden Cricket Monthly, but he endured a horrific winter Down Under, where his arcing inswing was meat and drink to Australia's legion of left-handers - in particular, Matthew Hayden. To his credit, Hoggard retreated to the ECB Academy in Adelaide, and returned with a snappier run-up to play his part in England's fifth-Test win at Sydney. By his own admission, he took a while to learn his role in the side, and his flashier colleagues consistently stole his limelight. But his moments when they came were worth waiting for - a brilliant hat-trick at Barbados in April 2004, and then a phenomenal 12-wicket haul at Johannesburg the following winter, where he single-handedly bowled England into a series-clinching 2-1 lead. And the following summer, he shrugged off a quiet start to the summer to contribute nine wickets at Trent Bridge and The Oval, as England sealed their first Ashes victory for 18 years. His batting is limited, but he has developed into a reliable tailend blocker and one of the most effective nightwatchmen in the game. After a solid series against Sri Lanka in 2006 - 15 wickets at 24.60 - he struggled against Pakistan with 10 expensive wickets, but showed unstinting efforts on the Ashes tour including a seven-wicket haul at Adelaide. He carried a huge workload and was ruled out of the final Test with a side strain, bringing an end to 40 consecutive appearances. A rusty display against New Zealand led to his axing after the first Test in Hamilton but he earned a recall to the squad for the first Test of the 2008 season. Lawrence Booth May 2008
Notes
NBC Denis Compton Award 1998 Awarded the MBE in 2005 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2006
