Brad Hogg

George Bradley Hogg (born February 6, 1971) is an Australian cricketer. He is primarily a left arm chinaman bowler, although he is a handy left-handed batsman as well and is an excellent fielder. His international career has been resurrected by Shane Warne's absence from cricket in 2003 due to suspension from a drugs test, and retirement from one-day cricket.

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Hogg originates from Western Australia, where he has been a member of the State team since 1994. He originally entered the lineup as a batsman, but has since developed his bowling skills.

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In 1996, he joined the Australian team to tour India to replace Warne (who was injured). He made his Test debut and played seven one-day international matches. However, Hogg was then absent from the international scene until called up as an understudy for Warne for the 2002/2003 VB Series (an annual tri-nations one day tournament in Australia), and the 2003 World Cup. However, Warne first dislocated his shoulder in a VB Series match, and then positive to a banned diuretic in a pre-World Cup drugs test, leaving Hogg to play as Australia's specialist spinner in both series and has filled that role since, due to Warne's retirement from the one day game.

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Hogg was recalled to the Australian Test team to tour the West Indies in April 2003, where he played two matches, and he also played against Zimbabwe at the SCG later that year, but was upstaged by part-time chinaman bowler Simon Katich, who took 6/90 for the match (Hogg took 3/119). He was left out of the Test team in 2004 but remains in the national one day team as the preferred spinner to Stuart MacGill.

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