Hoggard rips into Somerset in vintage display
Published Date:
13 June 2009
By Chris Waters at Headingley Carnegie
IT is commonly held that the best way to get Steve Harmison firing on
all cylinders is to give the Durham pace bowler as much work as possible.
Now we know what makes Matthew Hoggard tick – leave him stewing on the
sidelines for over a month and then sit back and watch as he unleashes
his frustration.
That was the way of it at Headingley Carnegie yesterday as Hoggard
ripped through the Somerset top-order with the air of a man with a point
to prove.
To say that the former England pace man has been disgruntled at being
overlooked for Yorkshire's Friends Provident Trophy and Twenty20 Cup
campaigns is an understatement.
But 34 days after his last appearance for Yorkshire, Hoggard took 5-56
to help the club into a promising position against Somerset and thereby
prove he has lost none of his pride and passion.
It was only two weeks ago that Hoggard, 32, revealed he is biding his
time before agreeing a new contract at Headingley because he wants to
keep his options open.
The crux of the matter is that Hoggard wants to stay at Yorkshire, the
club want to keep him, but the player would consider leaving once his
contract expires in September if – in Hoggard's words – "I wasn't
getting any work up here".
Yorkshire, for their part, are not going to jump through hoops to retain
a high-earner who faces a stiff task to get back into their one-day
team, and yet many more performances like this can only ensure Hoggard
finds plenty of work at Yorkshire for the foreseeable future – in
Championship cricket at least.
This was vintage Hoggard.
Beneath the milky sunshine and before a good-sized crowd, he was
immediately into his stride after Yorkshire lost their last two
first-innings wickets inside the opening 15 minutes of the second day to
finish on a disappointing 277.
Hoggard had Marcus Trescothick caught behind on the drive from the
fourth ball of the innings – when these teams met in the Championship at
Scarborough last year, Hoggard removed his former England colleague with
the first ball of the match – and from his sixth delivery he also had
Justin Langer caught behind.
When you are playing Somerset it does not get any better than to remove
Trescothick and Langer inside the opening over, and as Hoggard accepted
the acclaim of the crowd, a scoreboard of 0-2 evoked the day a certain
FS Trueman helped reduce the Indians to 0-4 on his Test debut here in 1952.
But Hoggard was not done.
He had James Hildreth caught at third slip by Anthony McGrath and then
reduced Somerset to 30-4 when Zander de Bruyn played all round one that
pinned him in front.
Arul Suppiah and Craig Kieswetter lifted Somerset to a still-groggy 79-4
at lunch but Suppiah went in the first over after the interval,
leg-before to the left-arm spinner David Wainwright.
Kieswetter was a class apart and almost single-handedly kept Somerset in
the game as he timed the ball sweetly to all corners.
But the South African lost another ally in Peter Trego when Hoggard
claimed his fifth wicket courtesy of an outstanding one-handed catch at
second slip by Andrew Gale, and then Kieswetter himself perished when he
flashed outside off-stump and was caught behind off Ajmal Shahzad.
Kieswetter's 83, made from 131 balls with 11 fours, confirmed his status
as a wicketkeeper batsman of the highest potential.
Less impressive, however, was the way he failed to acknowledge the crowd
as he left the field – no matter how disappointed a player might be, he
should always recognise the applause of the paying public.
After Kieswetter's fine innings, Alfonso Thomas assumed the task of
trying to get Somerset up to somewhere near Yorkshire's first-innings score.
He added 66 for the eighth-wicket with former Yorkshire bowler David
Stiff, who contributed a career-best 28, and then accelerated as wickets
tumbled to finish unbeaten on 64 from 139 deliveries.
Wainwright removed Stiff and Michael Munday with the aid of slip catches
by McGrath before Shahzad ended the innings on 230 by bowling Charl
Willoughby.
Yorkshire were moving along nicely in their second innings before
Jacques Rudolph played a loose shot at Willoughby and was spectacularly
caught at point by Trego.
The day ended with Hoggard doing something else he does well, knuckling
down in the role of night-watchman, as Yorkshire closed on 26-1, a lead
of 73.
DISPLAY OF THE DAY
Matthew Hoggard
Captured 5-56 from 16 overs as Yorkshire enjoyed a good day at the office.
Yorkshire v Somerset
Headingley Carnegie: Yorkshire (5pts) lead Somerset (4) by 73 with 9
second inns wkts standing.
Overnight: Yorkshire 269-8 (J J Sayers 60).
Yorkshire First Innings
J A Rudolph b Thomas 14
J J Sayers c Langer b Willoughby 60
A McGrath c Kieswetter b Stiff 16
A W Gale lbw b Trego 35
J M Bairstow b Munday 28
G L Brophy c & b Thomas 33
T T Bresnan c Willoughby b Munday 48
Naved ul-Hasan b Willoughby 10
A Shahzad not out 8
D J Wainwright c Trescothick b Thomas 1
M J Hoggard c Kieswetter b Willoughby 1
Extras b5 lb12 w2 nb4 23
Total (99.3 overs) 277
Fall: 1-35 2-72 3-111 4-166 5-166 6-248 7-261 8-269 9-274.
Bowling: Stiff 17 2 47 1; Willoughby 23.3 11 30 3; Thomas 20 1 48 3;
Suppiah 3 1 9 0; Trego 13 4 31 1; Munday 16 0 68 2; de Bruyn 7 2 27 0.
Somerset First Innings
M E Trescothick c Brophy b Hoggard 0
A V Suppiah lbw b Wainwright 20
J L Langer c Brophy b Hoggard 0
J C Hildreth c McGrath b Hoggard 20
Z de Bruyn lbw b Hoggard 0
C Kieswetter c Brophy b Shahzad 83
P D Trego c Gale b Hoggard 3
A C Thomas not out 64
D A Stiff c McGrath b Wainwright 28
M K Munday c McGrath b Wainwright 1
C M Willoughby b Shahzad 0
Extras b2 lb9 11
Total (74.5 overs) 230
Fall: 1-0 2-0 3-26 4-30 5-84 6-97 7-149 8-215 9-219.
Bowling: Hoggard 16 3 56 5; Naved-ul-Hasan 15 1 47 0; Bresnan 12 3 26 0;
Shahzad 14.5 3 41 2; Wainwright 17 4 49 3.
Yorkshire Second Innings
J A Rudolph c Trego b Willoughby 22
J J Sayers not out 4
M J Hoggard not out 0
Extras 0
Total 1 wkt (13 overs) 26
Fall: 1-26.
To Bat: A McGrath, J M Bairstow, A W Gale, G L Brophy, T T Bresnan, A
Shahzad, Naved-ul-Hasan, D J Wainwright.
Bowling: Willoughby 7 3 14 1; Stiff 1 0 6 0; Thomas 5 2 6 0.
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