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The Wrong 'Un: The Brad Hogg Story
Cult hero of the Big Bash League, prime drawcard of the Perth Scorchers, IPL champion, 45-year- old Brad Hogg is still in his prime – almost three decades after he first played high-level cricket.
His career has been completely unlike that of other cricketing champions. As well as playing for his country, Brad has worked in shearing sheds and on the Fremantle wharf, he’s been a postman, football umpire, treelopper and rouseabout, and he’s even completed a finance degree along the way. He has overcome countless setbacks – including a seven-year gap between his first and second Test appearances – before becoming one of Australia’s most successful one-day and T20 players. Now, for the first time, he reveals his true story.
Memorable, sad, rousing, unpredictable and often hilarious, The Wrong ’Un is the inspirational story of one of the game’s most popular players.
‘I can’t stress how important blokes like Hoggy are to the psyche of a cricket team on tour. Sometimes, their off-field selflessness and good humour can be just as important for a team’s progress as a hundred made on the park.’ —Ricky Ponting
‘Many sportsmen are geniuses at hiding their frailties, camouflaging their weaknesses. Not Brad. He is so brutally honest, and so open. His eagerness that the reader discovers the real George Bradley Hogg, warts and all, takes a lot of guts. He is still that innocent, excitable, can’t keep still country boy with an often self-deprecating sense of humour. He has basically told me everything … and I mean everything. Good and bad.’ —Greg Growden
His career has been completely unlike that of other cricketing champions. As well as playing for his country, Brad has worked in shearing sheds and on the Fremantle wharf, he’s been a postman, football umpire, treelopper and rouseabout, and he’s even completed a finance degree along the way. He has overcome countless setbacks – including a seven-year gap between his first and second Test appearances – before becoming one of Australia’s most successful one-day and T20 players. Now, for the first time, he reveals his true story.
Memorable, sad, rousing, unpredictable and often hilarious, The Wrong ’Un is the inspirational story of one of the game’s most popular players.
‘I can’t stress how important blokes like Hoggy are to the psyche of a cricket team on tour. Sometimes, their off-field selflessness and good humour can be just as important for a team’s progress as a hundred made on the park.’ —Ricky Ponting
‘Many sportsmen are geniuses at hiding their frailties, camouflaging their weaknesses. Not Brad. He is so brutally honest, and so open. His eagerness that the reader discovers the real George Bradley Hogg, warts and all, takes a lot of guts. He is still that innocent, excitable, can’t keep still country boy with an often self-deprecating sense of humour. He has basically told me everything … and I mean everything. Good and bad.’ —Greg Growden
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256 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2016
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November 4, 2016
A joy
Enjoyed very much. Honest and fun with insights into what it is really like to play for Australia. And what a character
Enjoyed very much. Honest and fun with insights into what it is really like to play for Australia. And what a character
April 3, 2020
Here goes first review of year 2018.
So Brad Hogg has been a fixation in cricket for a long time and as Indian I kinda like/hate Australian players. Well coming to the biography it's an honest look at Brad's life with his beginning and the mistakes he has committed over the year and how he jumped back to cricket scene after a premature retirement from cricket.
It was a nice read which gives us an insight in Australian domestic cricket scene as well.
And also a shout out I was given this and more wonderful books by Juggernaut publishers and their wonderful app. Give it a try. And I wish you a very happy new year and hope that the coming year would be full of awesome reading. So take care and Keep on Reading folks.
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
So Brad Hogg has been a fixation in cricket for a long time and as Indian I kinda like/hate Australian players. Well coming to the biography it's an honest look at Brad's life with his beginning and the mistakes he has committed over the year and how he jumped back to cricket scene after a premature retirement from cricket.
It was a nice read which gives us an insight in Australian domestic cricket scene as well.
And also a shout out I was given this and more wonderful books by Juggernaut publishers and their wonderful app. Give it a try. And I wish you a very happy new year and hope that the coming year would be full of awesome reading. So take care and Keep on Reading folks.
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
August 28, 2019
Loved reading about the journey of Brad Hogg and admire him for taking so much of his personal story public. The editing of this book could have been better with both flow and content. Nonetheless an inspiring and worthwhile read.
October 6, 2018
This started well and held my interest, however a third in I was bored. It became too repetitive about Hoggs's character. Once or twice is OK but it went on and on and lost my interest.
January 15, 2017
A great summer read. If you love cricket books this one is for you.
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