Matthew Hoggard

Matthew Hoggard

Personal information
Full name	Matthew James Hoggard MBE
Born	(1976-12-31) 31 December 1976 Pudsey, Leeds, England
Nickname	Hoggy, Oggie
Height
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	England
Test debut (cap 602)	29 June 2000 v West Indies
Last Test	5 March 2008 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 165)	3 October 2001 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	12 April 2006 v India
ODI shirt no.	22
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1996–2009	Yorkshire (squad no. 14)
1999–2000	Free State
2010–2013	Leicestershire (squad no. 77)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 67 26 239 150 Runs scored 473 17 1,908 144 Batting average 7.27 4.25 9.04 6.00 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/4 0/0 Top score 38 7 89* 23 Balls bowled 13,909 1,306 42,349 6,932 Wickets 248 32 786 205 Bowling average 30.50 36.00 27.65 25.72 5 wickets in innings 7 1 26 4 10 wickets in match 1 n/a 1 n/a Best bowling 7/61 5/49 7/49 5/28 Catches/stumpings 24/– 5/– 63/– 18/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 September 2013

Matthew James Hoggard MBE (born 31 December 1976) is a former English cricketer. The 6' 2" Hoggard was a right arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman. He played international cricket for England cricket team from 2000–2008, playing both Test cricket and One Day International cricket. He was the captain of Leicestershire from 2010 until he announced his retirement in 2013. Previous to this he played for Yorkshire for a total of thirteen years.

Technique

Matthew Hoggard was a specialist orthodox swing bowler, and usually took the new ball for England in Test cricket. Hoggard's primary role in the team was to utilise the shine on the new ball to test the technique of top-order batsmen against the swinging delivery. If, due to pitch or atmospheric conditions, the new ball did not swing he could be ineffective. Hoggard was seen as the consistent bowler in the team. Hoggard also has a sound defensive batting technique, but was not known for scoring runs, averaging only 7.40 with the bat. He can block up an end for the batsman at the other end to score, and is also used as a nightwatchman.

Career

Early career

Hoggard began his cricketing journey at his local team, the famous Bradford League club, Pudsey Congs CC. He started his domestic career in first-class cricket in 1996. His debut List-A match followed in 1998.

2000–2003

Hoggard was initially brought into the England side under the wings of Nasser Hussain and Duncan Fletcher in 2000. He was brought into the NatWest Series as a replacement for the injured Andrew Caddick. Having only played two tests, Hoggard led the attack during England's 2001–2002 tour of India, and later took 7/63 against New Zealand. He then suffered an "horrific" winter tour of Australia at the hands of Matthew Hayden.

2004

During a successful tour of the West Indies for Hoggard, he took the 34th hat-trick in Test cricket on 3 April 2004, helping England to bowl out the West Indies for 94 in their second innings of the Third Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. This took England to their first series win in the West Indies since 1967–68, becoming the first visiting team to win three Tests in a Caribbean series. Hoggard also scored his highest score with the bat, 38 against the West Indies in August 2004. He then took 12 wickets at Johannesburg against South Africa.

2005

In the 4th Test Match of the series in South Africa in January 2005 Hoggard took 12 wickets for 205. Of Englishmen, only Johnny Wardle, who took 12 for 89 in Cape Town in 1956–57, has bettered his figures in South Africa since World War II. His match figures were England's best anywhere since Ian Botham's 13 for 106 against India in 1979–80. During the 2005 Ashes series, Hoggard scored 8 not out with Ashley Giles against Australia in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge in the 2005 Ashes series, which included a well-executed cover drive for four off a Brett Lee full toss, as England won by three wickets by reaching 129 to take a 2–1 series lead.

2006

In the 2006 New Year Honours Hoggard was awarded the MBE for his role in the successful Ashes tournament. He was also named as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in April 2006. On 6 March 2006, Hoggard was officially ranked the 4th best Test match bowler in the world. This was as a result of his Man of the Match performance for England against India in the First Test match at Nagpur in March 2006. On 13 May 2006 he became the tenth England bowler to take 200 Test wickets.

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A graph showing Hoggard's test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time.

During the Second Ashes Test at Adelaide in December 2006, Hoggard took 8 wickets in the match, with first innings figures of 7/109, in very unfavourable bowling and especially swing bowling conditions, though England still lost. Hoggard missed the fifth test in Sydney with a side-strain. It ended a run of 40 consecutive tests. As of July 2007, Hoggard was sixth in the list of all-time English Test wicket-takers with 240 from 64 matches.

Sri Lanka 2007–2008

Hoggard performed well in the opening two warm up matches at the start of England's tour of Sri Lanka. In the second of these, against the Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI, Hoggard took 5–25 in a match that saw Steve Harmison and James Anderson fall foul of injuries.

New Zealand 2008

After a disappointing performance where England lost the first test, Hoggard was dropped (along with longtime bowling partner, Steve Harmison) for the second test.

He 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.

In a 2015 analysis, statistician Andrew Samson calculated that Hoggard was England's best bowler, in terms of the batting average of the batsmen he dismissed in his career.

2009

With Hoggard's international career all but at an end, 2009 saw an increasing amount of him in the guise of a media personality. He released a book, which had a serialisation in The Times, and contributed a regular column to Cricinfo.

Hoggard was considered a scapegoat for his sudden falling out of favour the England and Wales Cricket Board. "We've had the same problems with the ECB since I started international cricket," he wrote in his book. "There were people slagging them off when I first came in and there are people still slagging them off. And it's not the ECB who pick the side anyway. See if you can find a player with a good word to say about the ECB. What are they going to do, sue me for telling the truth?"

Hoggard was released by Yorkshire at the end of the 2009 season and immediately linked with an unexpected move to Leicestershire. Hoggard was announced as the new captain of Leicestershire on 9 November.

2010–2013

In Hoggard's first year as captain, he was involved in a row with Leicestershire chairman, Neil Davidson. Davidson had accused Hoggard and coach Tim Boon of setting a 'very poor example', after Hoggard & Boon had accused Davidson of interfering in team affairs after a string of poor results. Davidson eventually left the county in October 2010. In his first season at Grace Road, Hoggard took an impressive 50 First Class wickets.

In 2011, Leicestershire finished bottom of the County Championship, but under 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, Hoggard announced his retirement from cricket at the end of the season. Unfortunately, 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.

Career best performances

	Batting				Bowling
	Score	Fixture	Venue	Season	Score	Fixture	Venue	Season
Tests	38	England v West Indies	The Oval	2004	7–61	England v South Africa	Johannesburg	2005
ODI	7	England v India	Kochi	2006	5–49	England v Zimbabwe	Harare	2001
FC	89*	Yorkshire v Glamorgan	Leeds	2004	7–49	Yorkshire v Somerset	Leeds	2003
LA	23	Leicestershire Foxes v Surrey Brown Caps	The Oval	2011	5–28	Yorkshire Phoenix v Leicestershire Foxes	Leicester	2000
T20	18	Yorkshire Phoenix v Lancashire Lightning	Manchester	2005	3–19	Leicestershire Foxes v Lancashire Lightning	Manchester	2010

Personal life

In May 2007 Hoggard's wife Sarah gave birth to a baby boy, Ernie, weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz.

External links

• Player profile: Matthew Hoggard from CricketArchive
• Player profile: Matthew Hoggard from ESPNcricinfo
• Yorkshire CCC Player Profiles