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George Bradley Hogg

Plays for	Australia
Age	46 years 263 days
Born	February 6, 1971, Narrogin, Western Australia
Batting Style	Left-hand bat
Bowling Style	Slow left-arm chinaman
With his booming grin, zooming flipper and hard-to-pick wrong'un, Brad Hogg is Australia's most mercurial chinaman bowler since 'Chuck' Fleetwood-Smith in the 1930s. He announced himself to the world with a stupendous flipper to Zimbabwe's Andy Flower in the 2003 World Cup. Flower leapt back, waited for the away-spin and then slumped, hideously bamboozled, as the ball fizzed straight through on to his stumps. Until that moment, Hogg's cricketing trajectory had been anything but straightforward. Like Stuart MacGill, he had spent years in the shadow of Shane Warne. He went to that World Cup hoping to pick Warne's brain, and unexpectedly found himself filling Warne's boots. His initial Test opportunity, at Delhi way back in 1996, also arose as Warne's stand-in. He made 1 and 4, took 1 for 69, and was promptly dumped for the next seven years and 78 games. No other Australian has waited so long between his first and second Tests; Alan Hurst, dropped for 30 matches, was the previous record-holder.

League	50	100	Ct	6s	4s	Ave	HS	Runs	NO	Inns	Mat
listA	6	0	81			26.32	94*	2606	53	152	233
firstClass	27	4	55			35.01	158	3992	32	146	99
T20Is	0	0	1	3	3	13.75	41	55	0	4	15
ODIs	2	0	36	5	41	20.25	71*	790	26	65	123
tests	1	0	1	2	14	26.57	79	186	3	10	7

League	5w	4w	Econ	Ave	BBM	BBI	Wkts	Runs	Balls	Inns	Mat
listA	3	5	4.65	28.06	5/23	5/23	257	7213	9298		233
firstClass	9		3.26	40.51		6/44	181	7333	13488		99
T20Is	0	0	7.61	53.28	2/31	2/31	7	373	294	15	15
ODIs	2	3	4.51	26.84	5/32	5/32	156	4188	5564	113	123
tests	0	0	3.67	54.88	4/133	2/40	17	933	1524	13	7