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Brad Hodge

Australia 

Now Part of Peshawar Zalmi

Full name Bradley John Hodge

Born December 29, 1974, Sandringham, Victoria

Current age 41 years 50 days

Major teams Australia, Auckland, Barisal Burners, Durham,Guyana Amazon Warriors, 

Kochi Tuskers Kerala,Kolkata Knight Riders, Lancashire, Leicestershire,Melbourne Renegades, 

Northern Districts, Rajasthan Royals,Victoria, Wellington

Nickname Hodgey, Dodgeball

Playing role Top-order batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Height 1.78 m

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	6	11	2	503	203*	55.88	965	52.12	1	2	60	1	9	0
ODIs	25	21	2	575	123	30.26	657	87.51	1	3	51	12	16	0
T20Is	15	11	4	183	36	26.14	144	127.08	0	0	9	7	5	0
First-class	223	388	38	17084	302*	48.81			51	64			127	0
List A	251	241	30	9127	164	43.25			29	38			93	0
Twenty20	254	240	55	6993	106	37.80	5300	131.94	2	46	681	231	96	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	6	1	12	8	0	-	-	-	4.00	-	0	0	0
ODIs	25	3	66	51	1	1/17	1/17	51.00	4.63	66.0	0	0	0
T20Is	15	3	30	43	1	1/13	1/13	43.00	8.60	30.0	0	0	0
First-class	223		5583	3086	74	4/17		41.70	3.31	75.4		0	0
List A	251		1734	1554	40	5/28	5/28	38.85	5.37	43.3	0	1	0
Twenty20	254	85	1110	1443	65	4/13	4/13	22.20	7.80	17.0	3	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Australia v West Indies at Hobart, Nov 17-21, 2005 scorecard
Last Test	West Indies v Australia at Kingston, May 22-26, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics	- Statsguru Test analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  Test match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Bowling match list  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
ODI debut	New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Dec 3, 2005 scorecard
Last ODI	India v Australia at Mumbai, Oct 17, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics	- Statsguru ODI analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  ODI match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Best innings bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
T20I debut	Australia v Zimbabwe at Cape Town, Sep 12, 2007 scorecard
Last T20I	Australia v India at Dhaka, Mar 30, 2014 scorecard
T20I statistics	- Statsguru T20I analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  T20I match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Best innings bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
First-class debut	1993/94
Last First-class	Victoria v South Australia at Melbourne, Dec 10-13, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1993/94
Last List A	Victoria v Queensland at Melbourne, Dec 7, 2011 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Leicestershire v Yorkshire at Leicester, Jun 16, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Karachi Kings v Peshawar Zalmi at Dubai (DSC), Feb 17, 2016 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
85*	Zalmi	v Karachi Kngs	Dubai (DSC)	17 Feb 2016	T20
3*	Zalmi	v Quetta Glad	Sharjah	14 Feb 2016	T20
14	Arabians	v Leo Lions	Dubai (DSC)	13 Feb 2016	Other T20
13	Arabians	v Sagittarius	Dubai (DSC)	11 Feb 2016	Other T20
0, 0/15	Arabians	v Sagittarius	Sharjah	5 Feb 2016	Other T20
29	Arabians	v Commanders	Sharjah	3 Feb 2016	Other T20
65*	Arabians	v Leo Lions	Dubai (DSC)	30 Jan 2016	Other T20
46*	Arabians	v Libra Lngds	Dubai (DSC)	28 Jan 2016	Other T20
14	Strikers	v Syd Thunder	Adelaide	21 Jan 2016	T20
37*	Strikers	v Melb Reneg	Melbourne (Docklands)	18 Jan 2016	T20

Profile

Brad Hodge will go down as one of the unluckiest nearly-men in Australian cricket. When he was dropped with an average of 58.42 only five matches into his Test career in 2005-06, he vowed to win back his place. He added only one Test, as a fill-in during a tour of the West Indies two years later, before his tally was permanently stalled at six matches in the baggy green. It was not an adequate reward for one of the most prolific run scorers in the modern era of Australia's domestic game.

By the time the 2009-10 season arrived, Hodge's heart was no longer in first-class cricket. He began the summer with 195 against South Australia but had an epiphany when he had reached his century, stumps was near and he launched the new ball over the bowler's head for six. Hodge said it signified he no longer had the drive to play the longer format and he soon retired, although he announced he would stay on in Victoria's limited-overs teams for another two seasons. And why not? He comfortably topped the FR Cup tally in 2009-10 with 622 runs at 69.11, including four centuries, and remained one of the world's best Twenty20 batsmen.

In 2006-07 he had forced his way into the ODI side when Ricky Ponting rested, and a 97 and 99 not out won him a place in the World Cup squad. In the Caribbean, he finally reached three figures with 123 off 89 balls against the Netherlands, but it was his last bat in the tournament and he watched the final from the dressing room. It had become an all-too familiar viewing platform. Hodge was Australia's unluckiest casualty of the 2005-06 season of batting change. Picked for his first Test in November after being the reserve on tours to India, New Zealand and England, he opened with a fluent 60 and by the end of the home summer had 409 runs at an envious average.

Still it wasn't enough to earn a spot on the South Africa trip as the selectors returned to Damien Martyn and Michael Clarke. Included in his five outings was an unbeaten 203 against South Africa in Perth, where he joined his boyhood idol Dean Jones as one of five Australians to make their maiden century a double. Two Tests later, Hodge, a tiny right-hander who is more quiet and laid back than Jones, was dropped amid whispers of a technical flaw against fast bowling, a short drought in the Pura Cup and a selection "judgment call". He picked himself up with a century in the domestic final loss to Queensland but remained on the fringes of the national side, making occasional one-day and Twenty20 appearances. He held on to his Cricket Australia contract until 2009-10, but was never viewed by the selectors as anything but a back-up plan.

A regular and consistent performer for his state and counties, Hodge's Victorian debut came in 1993-94 as an 18-year-old and he almost compiled 1000 runs in the season as he settled quickly at No. 4. The following years were more difficult, but he returned from the dips as a more complete player, carrying a classical technique and the ability to direct shots to all parts of the ground. Around consistently impressive one-day returns, Hodge passed the 1000 barrier in the 2000-01 first-class summer when he was a key player in the Bushrangers' march to a second successive Pura Cup final. More of the same output was revealed in 2001-02, when he shared the domestic Player-of-the-Season award with Queensland's Jimmy Maher, and his consistency pushed him towards international honours.

After a brief spell with Durham in 2002, Hodge spent two productive summers at Leicestershire, leading them to a domestic one-day trophy in 2004 and making the county's highest individual score of 302 not out against Nottinghamshire the season before, but moved to Lancashire in 2005. Rewarded with his first Cricket Australia contract in 2004, he was picked for the India tour and considered for the opening Test, but narrowly missed a place taken spectacularly by Clarke.
Cricinfo staff August 2010