Brad Hodge quits first-class cricket

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OZZA said:
No doubts was a terrific cricketer - but Victorian Cricket never ever screwed him over - so his decision to leave them in the lurch mid season is incredibly selfish.

The way he has ended a great first class career won't be forgotten - and thats a shame.
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Yeah you have to wonder why even bothered starting the season? Hoping Clarke didn't make it up maybe.

At least we won't have to put up with the bleating now.
 
HBF said:
Same. The Vics have stated publically that they'd love to win the treble this year. Obviously not incentive enough to keep playing after Christmas.
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I don't think that he is playing on in the 4 day version as his Mrs has health problems. Not sure what they are exactly. My guess is that he is playing on in the shorter versions as how else will he make good $$. There are only so many commentary spots.

Apparently he is a knob, but you have to take your hat off to him. He could certainly bat.

While the article does read as a dummy spit, if he was better liked in the Australian team, I am sure he would have played more test cricket.

Unlucky, life goes on, get over it.
 

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At least we don't have to read another pathetic Herald Sun article (Michael Horan) about how hard done by Hodge is by not getting a baggy green.
 
Sorry to see him go- certainly put the runs on the board....

We really need to reinstate eddiesmith so he can make one farewell post to his fav Hodgey......
 
Good batsman and made the most of his chances but obviously not in the minds of the selectors and has soured any opportunity of a recall with numerous public dummy spits. No one likes a whinger, if he hasn't played enough Test match cricket to satisfy his own desires, well, he's really got no one else to blame but himself.

All the best in retirement, he will still pick up some nice coin in the IPL so it's not all boiled lollies for him.
 
I reckon everyone is being a bit rough about Hodgey in here, sure he has said a few things in the media about non selection when he should have just stayed quiet, but if he has decided that he doesn't want to keep a younger player out of first class cricket given that he won't play tests then good on him. If it was another player, I don't think anyone would say he is leaving a team in the lurch. The Vics have some good young talent which it will be good for them to get more game time into.
 
He obviously deserved more chances to play for Australia, and was harshly dropped from the Test Team, but I don't reckon he was ever gunna be a World class Test batsman. In fact, in my opinion, he was a fair way off ever being a good test player. Averages obviously aren't everything, but he only averaged 44.92 for Victoria in Sheild and Pura Cup matches, which doesn't even get him anywhere near the all-time top 50 Sheild averages: http://stats.cricinfo.com/australia...areer_batting_average.html?id=114;type=trophy

Vic Sheild records:

http://stats.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/averages/batting.html?id=114;team=635;type=trophy

Rodney Hogg was talking to Keith Stackpole today on SEN, and Hoggy was trying to get Stacky to rate Hodge amongst Vic's all-time best batsman, even asking him if he was the best ever. Stacky ummed and ahed, pretty much saying (but not in these words) that he'd be lucky to get in the top 10.
 
Registered User said:
He obviously deserved more chances to play for Australia, and was harshly dropped from the Test Team, but I don't reckon he was ever gunna be a World class Test batsman. In fact, in my opinion, he was a fair way off ever being a good test player. Averages obviously aren't everything, but he only averaged 44.92 for Victoria in Sheild and Pura Cup matches, which doesn't even get him anywhere near the all-time top 50 Sheild averages: http://stats.cricinfo.com/australia...areer_batting_average.html?id=114;type=trophy
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Minimum of 10 innings.
 
Was harshly dropped from the Test side and didn't deserve to be at the time, lets just put it that way. In some ways I don't blame him for being 'bitter' (for lack of a better word).

Unfortunately did not grasp his chances playing ODI cricket for Australia. Had he been able to solidify a spot in the ODI side he might have been able to push his case further. Unfortunately he's missed out, but he's not the first guy to have a stellar first class record and not be apart of the Test team. Just ask Martin Love, David Hussey and Chris Rogers.
 
Let's face it, this is simple, Brad Hodge wasn't picked to play for Australia often for one reason, and one reason only, and that was because there were other choices available that better fitted the ACA's (ACB as it was known) own agenda of "polite" cricketers who don't speak out against the establishment.

Hodge should have played more tests, but it didn't at any point hurt the results the Australian cricket team achieved, so even as a Victorian, I don't really buy into the whole "he wasn't picked because he was a victorian".

He was a great state cricketer, a good international cricketer at all forms of the game.

By the way does anyone really expect him to just retire? He will come out of retirement and go play in the IPL guaranteed.
 

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Didnt he already say that, he'll still play list A and twenty20 cricket for the vics/IPL/Australia if chosen, just no more first class cricket.

Looked dicey in international cricket to be honest apart from that 200. Probably treated a bit harshly but whatever.
 
Why are people making him out to be some kind of martyr? He didn't "stand up to the establishment", he was just a loudmouthed spanner with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

To a degree I don't blame him for being bitter, but there's plenty of others who've been screwed around by selectors without having a whinge any time a journo cared to listen. Best thing CV ever did was passing him over for the captaincy in favour of White.
 
Incredibly selfish decision, and probably the main reason he never made it into the test team longer term. Its all about him and not about the team.

Should play out the season but I guess that shows how much of a team player he is.
 
Caesar said:
Why are people making him out to be some kind of martyr? He didn't "stand up to the establishment", he was just a loudmouthed spanner with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

To a degree I don't blame him for being bitter, but there's plenty of others who've been screwed around by selectors without having a whinge any time a journo cared to listen. Best thing CV ever did was passing him over for the captaincy in favour of White.
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I thought they gave it to White because he was unlikely to play much international cricket if any and literally the guy should have no tests to his name.

You can keeping asking Cricket Australia why you weren't/aren't selectored. If they're not willing to make it public or give the guy a straight answer, then they're gutless, which is how far from the truth? They don't want to be dragged into shit but they let a quality player drag himself down because he has the desire to play for Australia and can't get a straight answer.

Oh Chris Rogers is a bad bloke, so what? Clarke is a spanker, Watson is a pretty boy golden child that is as selfish as they come, Ponting chased a trans around the Cross, Warne was a drug cheat and took bribes, the list goes on. If the selectors aren't willing to come out and say, Hodge will never be considered for test selection for these reasons, then the guy has some clarification, the media has some clarification and supporters have some clarification. It's gutless by CA and nothing short of it.

The reason they don't do this is because they know they'll have double standards in the future or currently, they're hypocrites when it comes down to it and you support that without question. I don't really care for Hodge at all, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't have been handled better for the sake of Australian Cricket.
 
Great player and should've got more chances, but it is disappointing that he decided to go out now and not wait until the end of the season.
 
Can't believe the tools on here giving it to Brad Hodge. Oh sorry let me rephrase that NSW tools on here giving it to him. Easy to give it to a bloke when the NSW team is playing for Aust.
We in Vic do get some bowlers in the team but if you are aVic batsman, forget about it. That is why Chris Rodgers made a bad decision coming to Vic he is now out of eye sight of that tool Andrew Hilditch. How can we trust a guy who went out in every tet innnings he played playing the hook shot. He doesn't learn from mistakes.
 
Why should that matter? Clarke doesn't have any class yet he is assuming the captaincy when Ponting finishes.
 

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