Hoggy: Welcome to My World
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Matthew Hoggard. Hoggy: Welcome to My World
Dedication
What you’ll find inside …
ForePaw-word
Introduction
1 My Family and Other Animals by Matthew ’oggard, aged 8½
WHY CRICKET IS A. BATSMAN’S GAME
2 Gardens, Gags and Games
FIVE GREAT THINGS. ABOUT BEING A CRICKETER
PUZZLES
3 Wild and Free
TOP 5 ANGRIEST. BATSMEN
4 England Calling
REVEALED. OVERLEAF…
5 Meat and Three Veg
BIG CHEF HOGGY’S. à la Scorecard Menu
6 Touring and Toiling
LEAGUE TABLE OF. COUNTRIES TO VISIT ON TOUR
7 Physical Jerks
HOGGY’S HUTCH: MY BATTING BUNNIES
8 Getting Better All the Time
9 Mind Games
THE SCRUFF LIST
10 Time to Produce
TOP ACTIVITIES ON. AN ENGLAND TOUR
11 Drinking for England
12 Swinging the Balance
13 A Word from the Wife
REVEALED. OVERLEAF…
14 Nightwatchman’s Tales
15 Squashed by the Big Fat Lad
FIVE NOT-SO-GREAT. THINGS ABOUT BEING A CRICKETER
16 Press-ganged
HARDEST. HITTERS
17 It’s all Gone Haywire
THE FASTEST. SPELLS I EVER FACED
EpilogueHog
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Acknowledgements
Hoggy Stats
Copyright
About the Publisher
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HOGGY
Welcome to My World
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So Padge pulled his car over, opened the boot, moved several cricket bags to the back seat and told his victim to lie down in the boot until they had crossed the border. Young Twatook climbed in, snuggled down and Padge slammed the boot lid shut. He drove off into Wales, leaving his captive in the boot to think about the foolishness of forgetting his passport. Once the border had been safely negotiated—armed checkpoints and all—the hostage was released, poor lad. I’m sure Padge felt that it was all good character-building stuff.
Where Padge had led, there were plenty of disciples ready to follow, which has made the Headingley dressing-room a dangerous place to be at times over the last few years. Probably the biggest irritant in the Yorkshire team in recent years—myself aside—has been Anthony McGrath.
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