Cricket Legends - Rodney Hogg

Robert 'Crash' Craddock catches up with fiery paceman Rodney Hogg

[@goat2503]

Blunt, honest, humble and non nonsense. I appreciate Rodney Hoggs demeanour.

[@wespaul9345]

This is gold. What a colourful career.

[@bradthurkle7217]

He’s was brilliant. One of my child cricketing hero’s. Loved his aggressive bowling. The days when cricket was great.

[@stephenhoward358]

He like money and fame famous is fame

[@randyborstol2491]

I think I've watched the first 3 minutes ten times now. Probably the greatest interview so far I've ever seen lol

[@Unknown-bv7lv]

Saw him Bowl in sri Lanka. He was fearsome

[@coalfacechris1336]

The best interview. Period. Saw him bowl in a shield game SA vs NSW back in the 80's - very slippery.

[@mycroft1905]

Like it or not, we love you Rodney Hogg. Always did. Great interview. TFP

[@terryallen5328]

On his day as quick as anyone else around and I loved the aggression he bowled with. A great bloke too.

[@adhityavjiyer7617]

Love his honesty!

[@zibtihaj3213]

1979 was his peak plus it was also his contest with Viv

[@martinspencer366]

He was extremely fast when his rhythm was right. Brilliant bloke.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Hogg must have Scottish ancestry - and I don't just mean because of his surname. I've seen so many jocks over the years who look like him (minus the sun tan). Love his dry sense of humour, self-deprecation and owning up to how pathetic he looked when receiving THAT delivery against Michael Holding in 1984. Great bloke!

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Never rated him. As an England supporter, I never saw him in the same league as Lillee and Thomson. . . .

[@patramamurthy]

Btw,Robert crash Craddock does his HW and asks superb quests .brilliant mind to elicit and almost provokes the interviewee to answer some awkward ,irksome details,hitherto unheard by lots of us..the devil in the fine print as they say!;) Worth every min.gr8 share this series of interviews in a long long time!💪🏏💥

[@Warpedsmac]

At Times R M Hogg was one of the fastest most hostile bowlers in cricket history. He Hurst and Dymock carried Australia forward in the WSC split season...honourable and patriotic.

[@vantheman1238]

I met Hoggy in Birmingham when he was leading a cricket tour in 2009. Couldn’t believe how small he was. Great fast bowler though.

[@iankearns774]

I met him at a Presentation Night for the Jika C.A, he was guest speaker and he had us all in fits of laughter. I told my missus he was my hero growing up. She said she had to go to the toilet and 10 minutes later here she is yelling at me to come over as she had him bailed up just outside the toilets. Spoke to him for about 10 minutes, he is a ripping bloke. All the blokes at the function appreciated him as he was a local growing up in Northcote and the Jika league mainly took in Preston and Northcote areas. He is one of our own in that respect.

[@vantheman1238]

Hoggy was with a bunch of Aussie supporters years ago in a Japanese restaurant in Birmingham. I saw him and told him he was a legend and a great bowler. Thought Hoggy was a good bloke.

[@DA-dw5zn]

We used to have the highlights broadcast of the 1-5 ashes series & he was fantastic. Rarely gets mentioned when they talk about top Aussie bowlers,oddly enough neither does Alderman,but they sent lots of our batsmen back to the pavilion.

[@stevehall5299]

Greg Chappell also knew that DK would be furious about the aluminium bat ,he didn't worry about upsetting him ,because he'd take it out on England with the ball ,DK flew in with even more aggression, job done skipper

[@sentimentalbloke185]

I think to understand Hoggy you have to be aware that, mostly, he's taking the piss in that uniquely dry, Australian way.

[@patramamurthy]

Watched him on that 79 tour of India' under Hughes..noballed incessantly..irked him no end. touches upon this tour too..fiery run up of his,seemed to run thru a brick wall like a later day Brett Lee.

[@sacredclown4179]

Hoggy is rare a creature not only cricket but in life. Like the Butterfly what a waste of energy it is to attempt to pin them down.

[@PhilHyde]

What a barrel of laughs

[@johnduncan9253]

Won't forget listening to Hoggy terrorise the English batsman on a shirt wave radio on the Coromandel in the summer of 79.

[@peterpiper831]

If he HAD been made Captain, would the players have called him Boss Hogg ?

[@iankearns774]

Would have made A.B Rossco if that happened.

[@mrkipling2201]

I’m exactly the same. I don’t like people!! He was brilliant in the 1978-79 Ashes series.

[@randyborstol2491]

I have his autobiography. In the Caribbean the Aussie captain (Hughes?) would not bowl him. Then eventually Hogg was brought on and took a wicket. The Aussie captain walked up to him and said 'well bowled' and Hogg swung a punch. Lol. Not seen your comments on the footy vids for a while. Hope all is well (DV)

[@mrkipling2201]

@@randyborstol2491 all good thanks. You??

[@randyborstol2491]

@@mrkipling2201 the biz!

[@nickvegas2459]

Jesus. I know less about Hoggy than I did when I started this video!!!

[@lornz5374]

luv Hoggie...

[@fredbloggs8362]

High quality bowler, below average green grocer abilities.

[@xaphre]

Well, apart from the fact the the Hoggs couldn't be good parents and raise young Rodney better, I have always imagined that were it not for Packer's WSC or South African "rebel" series what an Australian pace quartet Lillee, Hogg, Thomson and Pascoe might have been.

[@simontrencher8245]

Wouldn't want to be a batsman !!!

[@niladrimukherjee2098]

Bad tempered man and I bet he still is but a bloody good and an honest man. Bet he is the sort of man who'd be the first to empty his wallet for a hungry mand ,and be the first to rush a homeless sick man to the hospital. The kid in him is still alive cause I saw kiddy glint in his eyes.

[@thadtuiol1717]

He has Scottish ancestry for sure!

[@iankearns774]

@@thadtuiol1717 Nothing wrong with that, I get told all the time I am 58 going on 15. Peter pan syndrome is another one the missus tells people I have. I just dont take life too seriously and neither does he.

[@jugheadsrule]

I didn't think this was a great interview by Craddock. Too many questions about his behaviour and not enough about his bowling. Hoggy was as fast as Lee on his day.

[@EASTEASTEASTLONDON]

Proper Aussie legend 👏🏻

[@robertlanz3124]

One hit wonder. Not a legend in my eyes. Very self opinionated, not a team player. Sometimes, the truth hurts.

[@odetteswann7694]

Diagnosed with Scheuermann's disease, which, to his credit, he underplays here ("sore back"). That's why he was a one-hit wonder. Also breathtaking in the First Test v Pakistan in 1983, btw.

[@TerryChimes123]

He seems irate and arrogant from listening to this interview.

[@reimannx33]

Hogwash. Hog is not a legend.

[@captaincarnage6323]

Yes. He is a legend. A page of history. In 1978, when I was a 14 year old kid, one of the greatest Australian teams was dismantled by World Series Cricket. A bunch of B graders were selected to face Mike Brierley’s full strength English side. One of those was Rodney Hogg. Most of our team was as useless as an ashtray on a motorcycle. Rodney stood head and shoulders above everyone on either side in that tour and, despite the 5-1 defeat, every time he strode in to bowl, leaning in with his manic action, Australia rejoiced because he put us in the fight. He was ably supported by Alan Hurst. Until Border joined we couldn’t bat for shit. Defeat is defeat. Rodney Hogg did enough for Australia to avoid total humiliation, to retain some pride and, for my generation, to know that absent Thommo and Lillee we had a bloke who could scare the shit out of England and take wickets. It may have been one summer but it was seminal.

[@thadtuiol1717]

@@captaincarnage6323 Hogg's Scottish ancestry came to the fore whenever he played England - probably ancient DNA-encoded memories of slaughtering them at the Battle of Bannockburn!

[@iankearns774]

More legendary than you and me chuckles, 120 Test Wickets, how many have you got?

[@iankearns774]

@@captaincarnage6323 I was about 14 in 1978 and that's exactly what I remember as well. My Dad wouldn't watch the WSC, he hated it and hated what it did to Australian cricket at the time. Hoggy was my hero as a Victorian. As kids we played Test Matches at the park and got our sisters to score in proper scorebooks. Composite cricket balls, no helmets on a concrete pitch made for some fun times. We all picked the players we wanted to be in the scorebook and mine were Hoggy and Gary Cosier. Got to meet him in 2006, it was a cherished memory, he is a ripping bloke.

[@reimannx33]

@Ian Kearns Yes, more "legendary" than you, and you are a "nobody"; that is not saying much at all. Crackles and chuckles.