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MBE (born
31 December 1976 ,
Leeds ,
Yorkshire ) is an
English Cricket er.
The 6' 2" Hoggard is a right arm fast-medium
Bowler and right-handed
Batsman . He plays
County Cricket for
Yorkshire and was first selected for the
England Cricket Team in
2000 , playing both
Test Cricket and
One-day International cricket.
Matthew Hoggard is a specialist orthodox swing bowler, and usually takes the new ball for England in Test cricket. Hoggard's primary role in the team is 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 does not swing he can be ineffective. When the ball does swing, however, 'Hoggy' can be devastating, as at Johannesburg in 2005 (see below).
Hoggard 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 , taking England to their first series win in the West Indies since
1967 -68, and becoming the first visiting team to win three Tests in a Caribbean series.
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 -7, has bettered his figures in South Africa since the war. His match figures were
England 's best anywhere since
Ian Botham 's 13 for 106 against
India in
1979 -80.
Hoggard has a sound defensive batting technique, but is not known for scoring runs, averaging only 8.07 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 . His most famous innings however was the 8 not out he scored 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, as England struggled to a three-wicket win in reaching a low target of 129 to take a 2-1 series lead.
In the 2006 New Year's Honours List Matthew Hoggard was awarded the MBE for his role in the successful Ashes tournament. Hoggard was also named as one of five
Wisden Cricketers Of The Year in April 2006.
On
March 6 ,
2006 , Hoggard was officially ranked the 4th best
Test Match bowler in the world. This is a result of his Man Of The Match performance for
England against
India in the First
Test match at
Nagpur in
March ,
2006 .
