Hoggy: Welcome to My World

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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

Reviews

Hoggard on Hoggard: 'Im from Yorkshire. I say what I like and I like what I bloody well say. I'm not one for beating around the bush, I am not politically correct

An engaging memoir. The Times

A wonderful, honest and characteristically unhinged autobiography. Wisden Cricketer

Author Bio

Matthew Hoggard was born in Pudsey, Yorkshire in December 1976. A right-arm orthodox swing bowler he plays county cricket for his home club Yorkshire and made his England Test debut in June 2000 against the West Indies. He currently stands sixth in the list of all-time England Test wicket-takers with 248 from 67 matches. He is married to wife Sarah and has a baby boy Ernie and two dogs, Billy and Molly. In 2006 he was awarded an MBE.