Brad Hodge
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Bradley John Hodge is an Australian and Victorian
cricketer
. He attended St Bede's College
in Mentone, Victoria
. He is a right hand batsman who bats in the middle order, as well as a part time right arm off spin
bowler.
as a 19-year-old and was nicknamed "Glovelick" by Dean Jones
for the fact that he shared a bunkbed with his brother at the time of his debut. He was also called "Bunkie" for the same reason.
Hodge played Lancashire League Cricket for Ramsbottom
in 2000 and 2001 breaking the clubs batting record in 2001.
Hodge has played with County Cricket teams Durham
, Lancashire
and Leicestershire
, where he made his highest first class score of 302*. During his time at Leicestershire
he was accused of cheating
by then Derbyshire
captain, Dominic Cork
by claiming a catch although it appeared that he had stepped over the boundary rope in a Twenty20
match in June 2003. Hodge denied the accusation.
Hodge scored many runs for Victoria and his consistency came together by the 2000-01 season where he was consistently overlooked for selection despite being one of Australia's premier domestic batsmen.
On 21 November 2007, playing for Victoria against Queensland, Hodge made his highest Pura Cup
score of 286*. He and Nick Jewell
had batted undefeated for the entire third day of the game, only the fourth wicketless day's play in the history of the competition.
During the match against Queensland at the MCG
on 7 March 2009, he scored 261. During this innings he became the 6th batsman to pass 10,000 Sheffield Shield runs.
He also became the first to score a century in Australian domestic Twenty20, scoring 106 off 54 deliveries for Victoria against New South Wales at North Sydney, 21 January 2006.
In December 2009, Hodge announced his retirement from first class cricket to focus on the one-day and Twenty20 versions of the game. Hodge finished his domestic first class career as Victoria's all time leading run scorer.
After a long time waiting for an international debut, he finally debuted for the Australian team
against the West Indies
in November 2005 at Bellerive Oval
, Hobart
during the 2005-06 Test Series
, becoming the 394th player to wear the baggy green
for Australia.
Hodge scored his maiden Test century for Australia against South Africa in Perth on 19 December 2005. After ending the third day on 91 not out Hodge displayed some nervousness in media interviews about reaching his century, but by the end of the innings he managed to finish with an unbeaten score of 203. This innings was criticised by some Australian fans who felt that captain Ricky Ponting
declared too late in allowing Hodge to chase his double century. This criticism came after Australia did not bowl out South Africa in the 4th innings (despite having 120 overs to do so), with the match ending in a draw.
Hodge later made his One-day International debut and after two initial modest scores he scored a half-century. This earned him a recall for somes games against South Africa in the VB Series
, however he failed to capitalise and was dropped from the ODI side.
Hodge was dropped after only five tests in the team, and only three tests after scoring his double century against South Africa. The selectors stated that the decision was made on the back of a poor Pura Cup
season by Hodge, averaging around 25 for the summer when the team was selected (he finished the season with an average of 33.3). The decision was unpopular amongst Victorian fans, particularly since his replacement, Damien Martyn
, had averaged only 23.7 in the same Pura Cup season. He did get back, however, albeit more than two years later when included in Australia's squad that toured the West Indies in May/June 2008. On 22 May in what proved to be his final test, he made 67 and 27 with the bat.
Brad Hodge made 99 not out off 86 balls to steer Australia to victory against New Zealand on 4 February 2007 when he was called into the team because Andrew Symonds
had pulled out with a torn biceps.
On 18 February 2007 Brad Hodge scored 97 not out off 86 balls as he helped Australia to 4/336 off their 50 overs.
On 18 March 2007, in World Cup, Hodge scored his maiden one day century against Holland. He scored 123 off just 89 balls including 7 sixes and 8 fours in a record 4th wicket partnership with Michael Clarke
.
On 24 March 2007, Hodge was dropped from the Australian ODI side starting 11 in the World Cup after making a century and being named man of the match in the sides last outing against cricketing minnows the Netherlands. Andrew Symonds
, after recovering from a shoulder injury, was named as his replacement. Hodge later returned to the starting 11 when Shane Watson
was injured.
He played for Australia in a Twenty20 against India on 1 February 2008.
In December 2010 Hodge was named in Australia's initial World Cup side for the following year. However he was not named in the final squad.
in the Indian Premier League
for five weeks. He played three matches in the first edition without any success. In the second edition, he was the highest scorer for his team. He was also the most consistent player of the team. But in the fourth edition of the IPL he was signed by the Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
Victorian Bushrangers
The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...
cricketer
Cricketer
A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....
. He attended St Bede's College
St Bede's College (Mentone)
St Bede's College is a Roman Catholic, secondary school for boys, located in Mentone, Victoria, Australia.Founded in 1938, it is administered by the De La Salle Brothers and named after St. Bede the Venerable, a Benedictine monk and priest who spent his life teaching and writing in the...
in Mentone, Victoria
Mentone, Victoria
Mentone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Kingston...
. He is a right hand batsman who bats in the middle order, as well as a part time right arm off spin
Off spin
Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his or her fingers and/or wrist to spin the ball from a right-handed batsman's off side to the leg side...
bowler.
First-class career
Hodge debuted for the Victorian BushrangersVictorian Bushrangers
The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...
as a 19-year-old and was nicknamed "Glovelick" by Dean Jones
Dean Jones (cricketer)
Dean Mervyn Jones AM is a retired Australian cricketer, and is presently a coach. He also worked as a media commentator.-Career:...
for the fact that he shared a bunkbed with his brother at the time of his debut. He was also called "Bunkie" for the same reason.
Hodge played Lancashire League Cricket for Ramsbottom
Ramsbottom Cricket Club
Ramsbottom Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at Acre Bottom in Ramsbottom. For the 2011 season its captain is Jon Fielding, and its professional is Shanan Stewart of New Zealand. Usman Khawaja was called up to the Australian test squad and instead...
in 2000 and 2001 breaking the clubs batting record in 2001.
Hodge has played with County Cricket teams Durham
Durham
Durham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
and Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
, where he made his highest first class score of 302*. During his time at Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
he was accused of cheating
Cheating
Cheating refers to the breaking of rules to gain advantage in a competitive situation. The rules infringed may be explicit, or they may be from an unwritten code of conduct based on morality, ethics or custom, making the identification of cheating a subjective process. Cheating can refer...
by then Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
captain, Dominic Cork
Dominic Cork
Dominic Gerald Cork is a former English cricketer. Cork is a right-handed lower-order batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium, and is renowned for his swing and seam control. Making his début in first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1990, he was selected to play for England in 1992, aged 21. He...
by claiming a catch although it appeared that he had stepped over the boundary rope in a Twenty20
Twenty20
Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in England for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket...
match in June 2003. Hodge denied the accusation.
Hodge scored many runs for Victoria and his consistency came together by the 2000-01 season where he was consistently overlooked for selection despite being one of Australia's premier domestic batsmen.
On 21 November 2007, playing for Victoria against Queensland, Hodge made his highest Pura Cup
Pura Cup
The Sheffield Shield is the domestic cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams from the six states of Australia. Prior to the Shield being established, a number of intercolonial matches were played. The Shield, donated by Lord Sheffield, was first contested during...
score of 286*. He and Nick Jewell
Nick Jewell
Nicholas "Nick" Jewell is a former Australian rules footballer and a professional cricketer who played for Victoria.Jewell was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne and played for Under-18s football for Prahran; in Year 12 at Caulfield, he set a then Associated Public Schools of...
had batted undefeated for the entire third day of the game, only the fourth wicketless day's play in the history of the competition.
During the match against Queensland at the MCG
McG
Joseph McGinty Nichol , better known as McG, is an American director and producer of film and television, as well as a former record producer....
on 7 March 2009, he scored 261. During this innings he became the 6th batsman to pass 10,000 Sheffield Shield runs.
He also became the first to score a century in Australian domestic Twenty20, scoring 106 off 54 deliveries for Victoria against New South Wales at North Sydney, 21 January 2006.
In December 2009, Hodge announced his retirement from first class cricket to focus on the one-day and Twenty20 versions of the game. Hodge finished his domestic first class career as Victoria's all time leading run scorer.
Australian career
Australian cricket team
The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877...
against the West Indies
West Indian cricket team
The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...
in November 2005 at Bellerive Oval
Bellerive Oval
Bellerive Oval, also known as its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is primarily a cricket and Australian Rules Football ground located in Bellerive, City of Clarence, on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia...
, Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
during the 2005-06 Test Series
West Indian cricket team in Australia in 2005-06
The West Indies cricket team toured Australia in October and November 2005 as part of the 2005-06 Australian cricket season. The West Indian cricket team will be looking to prove that they can perform against the number one rated side in the world...
, becoming the 394th player to wear the baggy green
Baggy green
The baggy green is the evolution of a cricket cap of green colour, which has been worn by Australian Test cricketers since around the turn of the twentieth century. The cap was not originally baggy as evidenced by photographs of early players...
for Australia.
Hodge scored his maiden Test century for Australia against South Africa in Perth on 19 December 2005. After ending the third day on 91 not out Hodge displayed some nervousness in media interviews about reaching his century, but by the end of the innings he managed to finish with an unbeaten score of 203. This innings was criticised by some Australian fans who felt that captain Ricky Ponting
Ricky Ponting
Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...
declared too late in allowing Hodge to chase his double century. This criticism came after Australia did not bowl out South Africa in the 4th innings (despite having 120 overs to do so), with the match ending in a draw.
Hodge later made his One-day International debut and after two initial modest scores he scored a half-century. This earned him a recall for somes games against South Africa in the VB Series
VB Series
The Australian Tri-Series refers to the one day international cricket tournament held between 1979-80 and 2007-08 between the home side and two touring teams, in the height of the Australian cricket season, i.e. during the summer months of December, January and February. Between 1979–80 and 1995–96...
, however he failed to capitalise and was dropped from the ODI side.
Hodge was dropped after only five tests in the team, and only three tests after scoring his double century against South Africa. The selectors stated that the decision was made on the back of a poor Pura Cup
Pura Cup
The Sheffield Shield is the domestic cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams from the six states of Australia. Prior to the Shield being established, a number of intercolonial matches were played. The Shield, donated by Lord Sheffield, was first contested during...
season by Hodge, averaging around 25 for the summer when the team was selected (he finished the season with an average of 33.3). The decision was unpopular amongst Victorian fans, particularly since his replacement, Damien Martyn
Damien Martyn
Damien Richard Martyn is a former Australian cricketer. He played for the national team sporadically in 1992–1994 before becoming a regular ODI player in 1999–2000 and a regular Test player in 2001 until his retirement in late 2006...
, had averaged only 23.7 in the same Pura Cup season. He did get back, however, albeit more than two years later when included in Australia's squad that toured the West Indies in May/June 2008. On 22 May in what proved to be his final test, he made 67 and 27 with the bat.
Brad Hodge made 99 not out off 86 balls to steer Australia to victory against New Zealand on 4 February 2007 when he was called into the team because Andrew Symonds
Andrew Symonds
Andrew Symonds is a former Australian cricket team all-rounder. A two-time World Cup winner, Symonds is a right-handed middle order batsman and alternates between medium pace and off-spin bowling....
had pulled out with a torn biceps.
On 18 February 2007 Brad Hodge scored 97 not out off 86 balls as he helped Australia to 4/336 off their 50 overs.
On 18 March 2007, in World Cup, Hodge scored his maiden one day century against Holland. He scored 123 off just 89 balls including 7 sixes and 8 fours in a record 4th wicket partnership with Michael Clarke
Michael Clarke (cricketer)
Michael John Clarke is an Australian cricketer. He was appointed captain of the Test and ODI teams on 30 March 2011. Nicknamed 'Pup', he is a right-handed batsman, and occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler...
.
On 24 March 2007, Hodge was dropped from the Australian ODI side starting 11 in the World Cup after making a century and being named man of the match in the sides last outing against cricketing minnows the Netherlands. Andrew Symonds
Andrew Symonds
Andrew Symonds is a former Australian cricket team all-rounder. A two-time World Cup winner, Symonds is a right-handed middle order batsman and alternates between medium pace and off-spin bowling....
, after recovering from a shoulder injury, was named as his replacement. Hodge later returned to the starting 11 when Shane Watson
Shane Watson
Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....
was injured.
He played for Australia in a Twenty20 against India on 1 February 2008.
In December 2010 Hodge was named in Australia's initial World Cup side for the following year. However he was not named in the final squad.
Indian Premier League
On 26 April 2008, it was confirmed that Hodge would represent the Kolkata Knight RidersKolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders is the franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. Sourav Ganguly led the team in IPL1 and IPL3, Brendon McCullum in IPL2, and Gautam Gambhir in IPL4...
in the Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...
for five weeks. He played three matches in the first edition without any success. In the second edition, he was the highest scorer for his team. He was also the most consistent player of the team. But in the fourth edition of the IPL he was signed by the Kochi Tuskers Kerala.