Brad Hodge - Australian Cricketer

Bradley John Hodge who is known as Brad Hodge is an Australian and Victorian cricketer who bats in the middle order. He was born in Sandringham suburb of Melbourne city, Victoria, Australia. His date of birth is 29 December 1974. Brad is also a part time right arm off spin bowler.

For the fact that he and his brother shared a bunkbed at the time of his debut, Brad was nicknamed as Bunkie by Dean Jones. At the age of 19-years Brad debuted for the Victorian Bushrangers. Durham, Lancashire and Leicestershire are some County Cricket teams with whom Brad has played. His highest first class score is 302 not out. In June 2003 in a Twenty20 match, although it appeared that he had stepped over the boundary rope he claimed a catch during his time at Leicestershire he was accused of cheating by then Derbyshire captain, and now Lancashire team mate, Dominic Cork. Hodge denied the accusation. Though he was an Australia's premier domestic batsmen he was concentrating on the selection because of 2000 – 2001 seasons in which Brad scored many runs for Victoria. This made his consistency came together. Playing against Queensland for Victoria on 21 November 2007 Hodge made his highest Pura Cup score of 286 not out.




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The only fourth wicketless day's play in the history of the competition, Brad and Nick Jewell had batted undefeated for the entire third day of the game. During the match against Queensland on 7 March 2009 at the MCG, he scored 261 and he also became the 6th batsman to pass 10,000 Sheffield Shield runs.  On January 21, 2006 at North Sydney Brad scored 106 off 54 deliveries for Victoria against New South Wales and he is the only batsman to score a century in Australian domestic Twenty20. To focus on the one day and Twenty20 versions of the game Brad announced his retirement from first class cricket in December 2009.