Australia vs India, Melbourne T20: cricket live scores, commentary
Join us for live scores, team lineups and commentary of the second Australia vs India Twenty20 match, with Australia looking for another win and India looking for their first win of their tour. The...
View ArticleHodge, Hogg score big deals in IPL auction
Ageing Australian cricketers Brad Hodge and Brad Hogg have earned massive pay-days in the latest Indian Premier League auction. The Rajasthan Royals purchased both players, with Hodge selling for...
View ArticleWhite gets nod for T20 World Cup
Seven months ago, Cameron White’s international Twenty20 career appeared to be in tatters after a horror form slump resulted in him being stripped of the captaincy and dropped from the squad. But come...
View ArticlePakistan vs Australia 2nd T20I: Live score updates, commentary
Pakistan will look to seal the T20I series when they take on Australia in the second T20I at Dubai tonight. Join us at 2.00am AEST for live score updates and commentary That Pakistan won wasn’t as much...
View ArticleBrad Hogg still a T20 matchwinner for Australia
Australia is under scrutiny after their T20 World ranking slumped on the eve of the ICC World T20 tournament in Sri Lanka. For all of our success in the other formats of the game, mastery of the...
View ArticleJohnson unlucky and Hogg has a ping at Pat
Former Australian fast bowler Brett Lee believes Mitchell Johnson was extremely unlucky to be axed from the Ashes squad. Speaking during the IPL match Lee was asked about the omission of Johnson to...
View ArticleSelect Hodge and Hogg for T20 World Cup
Should Australia take a 43-year-old spinner and a 39-year-old batsman to the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in March? If they are serious about finally making a mark on the shortest format of the game,...
View ArticleEvergreen Brad Hogg not ready to retire
Perth Scorchers spinner Brad Hogg wants to play Twenty20s for at least two more years, but says it might be better for Australian cricket if James Muirhead beats him for a spot at this year’s World Cup...
View ArticleWhy Hoggy and Dunk should be off to Bangladesh: my T20 WC squad
He just turned 43 on Thursday, but Brad Hogg shows no signs of slowing down. Things were evenly poised in the Big Bash grand final last Friday night until he came on. Hoggy took the big wickets of...
View ArticleAustralia pick Hogg, Hodge and Haddin for World T20
Australia have gone back to the future by selecting ageing veterans Brad Hogg, Brad Hodge and Brad Haddin in their squad for the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh next month. Hogg, 43, is set to become the...
View ArticleI’ll be OK for World Cup: Hogg
It will take more than a hamstring niggle and bout of food poisoning to halt Brag Hogg’s Farnham-like farewell tour. With the Twenty20 World Cup under two weeks away, Hogg is unlikely to play in...
View ArticleWhen will we see the next great left-arm chinaman bowler?
When the BBL starts, Brad Hogg at age 43 will be exhibiting the game’s most underused art. Sadly, there appears to be very few left-arm chinaman bowlers on the horizon to replace him. In an interesting...
View ArticleBrad Hogg to weave magic for Scorchers
He’s the wily old man of the squad, but spinner Brad Hogg could hold the key to the Perth Scorchers’ chances of producing a T20 Champions League fairytale. Hogg was the star of the show during the...
View ArticleScorcher Hogg still grounded by hammy
The wily veteran will be missing once again, but Perth Scorchers coach Justin Langer is confident he still has enough weapons up his sleeve to beat the Sydney Thunder on Thursday night. Star spinner...
View ArticleOlder cricketers are more reliable than the younger brigade
When the national selectors sit down to name the Australian Twenty20 squad for the World Cup in March, they could do a lot worse than pick Michael Hussey, Brad Hodge, and Brad Hogg. The reasons?...
View ArticlePick me for World T20, says Brad Hogg
He’s about to turn 45, but Perth Scorchers veteran Brad Hogg will attempt to etch his name into cricket folklore by winning selection for a third straight World Twenty20 next year. Hogg’s Twenty20 form...
View ArticleHogg, Hodge still a chance for World T20
Australian T20 captain Aaron Finch says no age limit will be placed on selection for this year’s World T20 in India, opening the door for 40-somethings Brad Hogg and Brad Hodge to revive their...
View ArticleWATCH: Brad Hogg denied IPL wicket by stubborn bails
Brad Hogg was blasted for 28 runs in two overs in the Indian Premier League but it could have been a different story for the Australian who had some terrible luck in his opening over. The 45-year-old...
View ArticleAssessing the BBL teams: Perth Scorchers
With the 2014/2015 edition of the Big Bash League approaching, I start my assessment of the franchises with the team I support, the Perth Scorchers. The Scorchers have been what you may call the...
View ArticleHogg defects for big new BBL deal
Oh George Bradley Hogg. What have you done! The heart and soul of the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash has just given a massive finger to club loyalty by reportedly signing with the Melbourne Renegades...
View ArticleHoggy’s move to Melbourne a Scorcher win for all
As he did to Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower in the 2003 ODI World Cup, the ageless George Bradley Hogg has once again let rip the most bamboozling of flippers. After another tap on the shoulder from Perth...
View ArticleHey Langer, leave Hoggy alone: Loyalty doesn’t pay the bills
Perth Scorchers coach Justin Langer harmed his reputation this week with his petty comments about departing Scorchers veteran Brad Hogg. Langer is mistaken if he thinks loyalty is central to T20...
View ArticleWhy has cricket’s most important story been shelved?
There has been many battles this cricket season, even before the Test matches have begun. There has been the tragic battle of the Hughes family against the cricketing establishment following last...
View ArticleBrad Hogg gets younger every year
Brad Hogg will be 46 in February, but there is no more passionate, dedicated, nor infectious cricketer going around in the Big Bash League. He gets younger every year, but life hasn’t always been rosy...
View ArticleHighlights: Veteran Hogg leads Renegades over Stars
Ageless spin wizard Brad Hogg has conjured something from a soggy MCG pitch to hand the Melbourne Renegades victory in the BBL derby. Hogg took 3-22 as the Renegades claimed an eight-run win over the...
View ArticleBig Bash can thank Brad Hogg for its success
The explosive success of the Big Bash League can be attributed to a number of reasons, but would its success have been driven so high without evergreen veteran Brad Hogg? In its sixth season for the...
View ArticleSix alternate nicknames for ‘Chinaman’
I recently read a column from Fairfax cricket correspondent Andrew Wu calling for an end to the nickname ‘Chinaman’. As any cricket fan would know, a chinaman bowler is a left-armer who bowls wrist...
View ArticleAshes Q&A with Brad Hogg: Who to pick at six and seven?
With the Ashes kicking off at the Gabba on November 23, the debate over the makeup of the Aussie cricket team continues. Bowlers Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazelwood and Nathan Lyon will form...
View ArticleBBL07: An old man’s game because the young blokes can’t adapt
It still amuses me that a guy like 47-year-old Brad Hogg is not just still competing in the Big Bash League but quite regularly dominating. Now beyond 40 myself, and having not put on a pair of pads in...
View ArticleBrad Hogg sprung a surprise last night at the WACA
Having watched the near 47-year-old Brad Hogg play most of his seven Tests, 123 ODIs, and 15 T20s with his left-arm chinamen deliveries, and batting left handed, last night at the WACA he was signing...
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