Rodney Malcolm Hogg (born 5 March 1951, Melbourne) 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. Hogg started out as a batsman before switching to be an aggressive fast bowler. He was not able to break into the Victoria side so he transferred to South Australia where he began his career in 1975-76. 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 manfully filled the void taking 41 wickets at an average of 12.85 during the six-match series. In 1979 Hogg was involved in an unseemly 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. 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. After retirement from first class cricket, Hogg played at the age of 40 with Warrandyte Cricket Club in the Ringwood and District Cricket Association club championship. He played for two seasons, taking 73 wickets at an average of 13.14 from 24 matches. Hogg was a bowling coach for the Victorian team working alongside David Hookes. He is a now a corporate speaker and cricket commentator. Hogg 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 would take 500 test wickets before he had even played for Victoria. Hogg said he was sacked from the column soon after. Warne finished his career with 706 wickets.[1].
