Rodney Hogg

Personal information

Full name

Rodney Malcolm Hogg

Born

5 March 1951
Melbourne, Australia

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm fast

Role

fast bowler

International information

National side

Australia

Test debut (cap 297)

1 December 1978 v England

Last Test

22 December 1984 v West Indies

ODI debut (cap 53)

24 January 1979 v England

Last ODI

3 March 1985 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1975–1976 1983–1984

South Australia

1984–1985

Victoria

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	38	71	107	107
Runs scored	439	137	1185	218
Batting average	9.75	9.13	10.48	9.08
100s/50s	-/1	0/0	0/1	-/-
Top score	52	22	52	22
Balls bowled	7633	3677	19512	5582
Wickets	123	85	378	125
Bowling average	28.47	28.44	24.36	27.68
5 wickets in innings	6	0	20	6
10 wickets in match	2	n/a	4	n/a
Best bowling	6/74	4/29	7/53	4/29
Catches/stumpings	7/-	8/-	24/–	13/–

Source: , 6 August 2011

Rodney Malcolm Hogg (born 5 March 1951) is a former Victorian, South Australian and Australian cricketer. He was a fast bowler. Hogg played in 38 Tests and 71 ODIs between 1978 and 1985. In Tests he took 123 wickets at an average of 28.47.

Career

Hogg had asthma as a child and battled it through his career.^[1]

Hogg started out as a batsman before switching to be an aggressive fast bowler.

He played for Victorian Colts in 1972-73.^[2]

He was not able to break into the Victoria side so he transferred to South Australia where he began his career in 1975–76.

1978-79 Season

He first came to prominence for Australia during the 1978–79 Ashes home series versus England where Australians were without their frontline fast bowlers, such as Dennis Lillee, due to the World Series Cricket schism. Hogg filled the void taking 41 wickets at an average of 12.85 during the six-match series, including six wickets on debut in the first innings of the first Test.^[3]

Hogg began the season poorly, failing to take a wicket in a Gillette Cup game against Queensland.^[4]

In 1979 Hogg was involved in an incident on the second day of the second Test between India and Australia in Bangalore. After being no-balled 11 times in six overs, Hogg bowled a beamer, kicked down the stumps and stormed off the field. His captain Kim Hughes tendered an immediate apology to the umpire and persuaded Hogg to express his apologies also.

He toured India in the 1984-85 season.

Rodney Hogg was interested in touring South Africa. He met with Ali Bacher in London during the 1983 Cricket World Cup. "I was pretty much in from day one," said Hogg. I was in my mid-30s, and the idea was that the tour wouldn't happen for another year or two. Had it been on in 1983, I'd have been less interested as I was still in the Test side and doing well at the time.... I was pretty happy with the money on offer. My career was pretty much over by then. Fast bowlers don't last forever. Prime minister [Bob] Hawke called us traitors. I thought that if it was okay for Hawke to trade with South Africa, it was okay for me to go and play cricket there."^[5]

During the 1983-84 season, Hoog took 1-10 in the McDonald Cup semi final, helping South Australia win. He won man of the match.^[6]

During the 1984–85 season, Hogg was made the vice-captain of the national side. However Kim Hughes resigned the captaincy and both he and Hogg signed up for two rebel tours to South Africa in 1985–86 and 1986–87 during apartheid times. This gave him a three-year ban practically ending his international career. In 1984–85 Hogg returned to play for Victoria but only played two first class matches and two one day matches. That season he mostly played for the national team and he spent the following seasons in South Africa.

"I have no regrets whatsoever about going on those tours," he said in 2016.^[5]

Post-playing career

After retirement from first class cricket, Hogg was a bowling coach for the Victorian team working alongside David Hookes.

In 2005-06 he was a selector for Victoria.

He is a now a corporate speaker and cricket commentator.

On Australia Day 2012 Hogg sparked a controversy when he posted an offensive tweet about Allah. He later removed the tweet and apologised, claiming it was just a bad attempt at Australian humour.^[7]

Hogg's autobiography is titled The Whole Hogg - Inside the mind of a lunatic fast bowler. He said that former England captain Mike Brearley had a "degree in people". He also predicted in his The Truth newspaper column that then unknown leg spinner Shane Warne, who had not even played for Victoria at the time, would take 500 test wickets. Hogg said he was sacked from the column soon after. Warne finished his Test career with 708 wickets.^[8]

Rodney Hogg has been a regular commentator for channel 7 in Australia and since 2001 has been building up a great reputation as a corporate speaker throughout Australia. Guest appearing as an MC at many different corporate locations his reputation for public speaking has placed Rodney as one of the foremost sports speaking personalities around Melbourne and the rest of Australia.

Notes

↑ "Bowl it over like Rodney Hogg did". The Australian Women's Weekly. 49, (24). Australia, Australia. 18 November 1981. p. 41. Retrieved 30 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "CLEWS STRIKES BLOW FOR N.S.W. COLTS". The Canberra Times. 47, (13,305). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 13 December 1972. p. 34. Retrieved 30 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "4th Test: 1st Test: Australia v England at Brisbane, Dec 1-6, 1978". espncricinfo. Retrieved 2011-12-13.
↑ "First look at Hogg, Darling". The Canberra Times. 53, (15,745). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 31 October 1978. p. 20. Retrieved 30 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
1 2 Andrews, Crispin (12 January 2016). "Prime minister Hawke called us traitors". Cricinfo.
↑ http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/44/44268.html
↑ Wu, Andrew (26 January 2012). "Hogg tweets Australia Day slur to Muslims". Sydney Morning Herald.
↑ "Shane Warne Official Statistics". Retrieved 26 January 2012.

External links

Australia squads

Australia squad – 1979 Cricket World Cup

1 Hughes (c) 2 Border 3 Cosier 4 Darling 5 Dymock 6 Hilditch 7 Hogg 8 Hurst 9 Laughlin 10 Moss 11 Porter 12 Wright (wk) 13 Yallop

Australia squad – 1983 Cricket World Cup

1 Hughes (c) 2 Border 3 Chappell 4 Hogan 5 Hogg 6 Hookes 7 Lawson 8 Lillee 9 MacLeay 10 Marsh (wk) 11 Thomson 12 Wessels 13 Wood 14 Yallop

Australian first-class cricket season leading wicket-takers (1950–51 to 1999–2000)

1950–51: Bedser 1951–52: Johnston 1952–53: Tayfield 1953–54: Johnson 1954–55: Tyson 1955–56: Benaud 1956–57: Kline 1957–58: Quick 1958–59: Benaud 1959–60: Martin 1960–61: Davidson 1961–62: Benaud 1962–63: Meckiff 1963–64: Sellers 1964–65: Hawke 1965–66: Hawke 1966–67: Lock 1967–68: Connolly 1968–69: McKenzie 1969–70: A. Thomson 1970–71: A. Thomson 1971–72: Mallett 1972–73: Mallett 1973–74: Dymock 1974–75: Lillee/J. Thomson 1975–76: Lillee/J. Thomson 1976–77: Lillee 1977–78: J. Thomson 1978–79: Hogg 1979–80: Mallett 1980–81: Lillee 1981–82: Yardley 1982–83: Lawson 1983–84: Lillee 1984–85: Holland 1985–86: Holland 1986–87: McDermott 1987–88: Matthews 1988–89: Whitney 1989–90: Rackemann 1990–91: McDermott 1991–92: McDermott 1992–93: Holdsworth 1993–94: Warne 1994–95: Rackemann 1995–96: Kasprowicz 1996–97: Kasprowicz 1997–98: Miller 1998–99: Saker 1999–2000: Bichel

Leading run-scorers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards Leading wicket-takers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards

South Australia squad – 1975-76 Sheffield Shield Competition

1 Geoff Attenborough 2 Bob Blewett 3 Ian Chappell (c) 4 Trevor Chappell 5 Gary Cosier 6 Barry Curtin 7 Rick Drewer 8 Rick Darling 9 Rodney Hogg 10 David Hookes 11 Terry Jenner 12 Ashley Mallett 13 Wayne Prior 14 Stan Wilson 15 Ashley Woodcock 16 Denis Yagmich

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