Tom George Hogan (born 23 September 1956) is a former Australian cricketer.
Hogan was a left arm spinner who played in seven Tests and 16 One Day Internationals for Australia in 1983 and 1984.
Hogan made his debut for Western Australia in 1981–82. In his first Shield game he earned figures of 0-77 against Victoria in a game wheere Julian Wiener and Jeff Moss both scored double centuries. Hogan's second game was more successful for him,taking 4-64 against Tasmania and helping bowl WA to a victory. In his third game,against Victoria,Hogan took six wickets and scored 70. [1] [2] Hogan took 20 wickets at 36.75 for the 1981-82 season. [3] In a McDonald's Cup match against Victoria,Hogan's innings of 25 runs off 21 balls also helped WA win a narrow run chase.
Hogan had a strong 1982–83 summer. He scored 72 against NSW [4] and took eight wickets against Qld. [5]
Towards the end of January Hogan was picked in Australia's one day team to play New Zealand,replacing Dennis Lillee who was made 12th man. [6] He took 2–42 and made 4 not out,in a game Australia lost. [7] [8] Hogan was kept on in the squad. [9] He was picked on a 1983 tour of Sri Lanka,one of two spinners (the other was Bruce Yardley). [10] By the end of the summer he had taken 35 first class wickets at 26.82 –out of all Australian spinners in first class cricket that season,only Bruce Yardley and Murray Bennett had taken more. [11]
Hogan was picked in the first ODI. He had an excellent game,scoring 27 off 25 balls,taking a catch and earning bowling figures of 3–27. [12] [13] Things were harder in the 2nd ODI,Hogan going for 1–62. [14]
He took 3–37 and 3–42 in a tour game against the Sri Lankan Board President's XI. [15] [16] He was selected in the test,bowling in tandem with Yardley. Hogan struggled in his first innings,going for 1–51,but did superbly in the second,taking 5–66 and helping Australia win by an innings. [17] [18] He made 12 wickets at 16 for the tour,Australia's best performing bowler. [19]
These efforts saw Hogan picked as the sole specialist spinner for the 1983 World Cup. He was selected over Bruce Yardley,who then retired from international cricket. [20]
Hogan did not play for Australia in the initial games but was eventually picked to play against India,taking the place of Dennis Lillee who was made 12th man. [21] Hogan's figures were 2–48. [22] He kept his place for the next game,against Zimbabwe,taking 2–33. [23] Hogan got 1–31 in the loss against India [24] and 1–60 against West Indies.
Hogan was picked in the Australian side for the first test against the touring Pakistan side. [25] However captain Kim Hughes decided on using an all-pace attack and Hogan was made 12th man. [26] Australia won the game easily and kept the same twelve for the second club. Hogan took 3–91 and 1–107 in a shield game [27] and was 12th man again as Australia used four pace bowlers.
An injury to Carl Rackemann saw Hogan selected for the 3rd test. [28] He suffered badly at the hands of the Pakistan batsman,going for 1–107 [29] and was dropped for the squad for the fourth and fifth test in favour of Murray Bennett and Greg Matthews. [30]
Hogan was later dropped from the Australian one day team. [31] However he bounced back with 5–31 against Victoria [32] and wound up with 26 first class wickets at 33 for the summer. He took more first class wickets than any other Australian spinner. [33]
Hogan was picked on the 1984 tour of West Indies. He and Greg Matthews would be the spinners;Murray Bennett,Peter Sleep and Bob Holland,who had also had strong domestic seasons,were overlooked. [34] [35] He also worked his way back into the one day team,taking 1–22 against Pakistan [36] [37] and 0–31 and 6 runs in a thrilling tie against the West Indies. [38] He went for 0–39 in the last ODI final. [39]