Hoggy: Welcome to My World: The Peculiar World of Matthew Hoggard

Hoggy has 15 ratings and 2 reviews. Paul said: Way back in Matthew Hoggard was one of the team that brought the Ashes back home after an absence of.
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Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Hoggy by Matthew Hoggard. Welcome to My World by Matthew Hoggard. Welcome to My World 3. The quintessential barking-mad Yorkshire cricketer, 'Hoggy's' record-breaking bowling exploits for England allied to his humorous, uniquely oddball yet hugely endearing attitude to sport and life makes this essential reading for all lovers of the game.

More than just a line-and-length cricketer's biography, Hoggy offers an entertaining insight into the weird and wonderful w The quintessential barking-mad Yorkshire cricketer, 'Hoggy's' record-breaking bowling exploits for England allied to his humorous, uniquely oddball yet hugely endearing attitude to sport and life makes this essential reading for all lovers of the game. More than just a line-and-length cricketer's biography, Hoggy offers an entertaining insight into the weird and wonderful world of one of cricket's true characters.

From the pub to the wicket and everywhere in-between, the dogged nightwatchman and wicket-taker looks beyond the runs and wickets to reveal what cricketers really get up to on tour and in the dressing room … Paperback , pages. Published April 29th by HarperSport first published July 6th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Hoggy , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Thanks for telling us about the problem.

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Hoggy: Welcome to My World: The Peculiar World of Matthew Hoggard by Matthew Hoggard

Preview — Hoggy by Matthew Hoggard. The Peculiar World of Matthew Hoggard 3. The quintessential barking-mad Yorkshire cricketer, 'Hoggy's' record-breaking bowling exploits for England allied to his humorous, uniquely oddball yet hugely endearing attitude to sport and life makes this essential reading for all lovers of the game. Hardcover , pages. Published April 1st by HarperSport first published January 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Hoggy , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jun 03, Lee Hider rated it liked it. Mildly amusing in stages.


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Some areas were a bit too childish for my liking but that was offset when he eventually got down to the cricket. Not a bad read but not the best either. Ben rated it liked it Feb 25, Honest, hard-working, with a touch of guile and oddity. Imagine what a cricket-playing sheepdog's autobiography might be like and you're on the right lines.

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The swing bowler is, by his own admission, pretty daft but comes across as a good lad. The book promises that Hoggy is as mad as a box of frogs, but it's all of the "we put some shaving foam in Bumble's kit bag, he didn't have a clue, everyone fell about" variety.


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The back cover, featuring Hoggard looking like an idiot on an elephant, kind of says it all. He's fairly circumspect on the dressing room disagreements, though he does have a dig at Peter Moores' focus of fitness above all else and is clearly ambivalent about Duncan Fletcher.

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He gives a good impression of Michael Vaughan's measured captaincy, though, and paints a familiar picture of Hussain as a prickly, if respected, character. His impressions of Strauss are predominantly of observation on Strauss's poshness and his "loud, booming voice". Hoggard does give the impression of a huge gulf between the outlooks of test bowlers and batsmen, something akin to a caste system in cricket teams, and his criticism of trying to 'overthink' bowling and complaints over the fast bowler's lot seem spot on.

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Hoggard's notion of a 'pisstaking coach' in dressing rooms also seems wise — witness the difference between a team enjoying each others' company during the current Ashes series and the miserable bastards that populated 90s squads. It's enough to make you wonder whether, under the daft hair and dafter banter, there's a very astute cricket brain — certainly Hoggard's bowling tended to be the most thoughtful of his England contemporaries.

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