Vince Hogg, a former Zimbabwean cricket player was born in Salisbury, present-day Harare. He was born on July 3rd, 1952. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler. He had a long career of more than a decade. He’s played his last games in the cricket world cup of 1983. After retirement, he ventured into the real estate business which was a successful one. He also was asked to join as the chief executive of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union in the year 2002. It was a difficult time in the history of the country then. He was in the team that won the ICC Trophy in England in 1982 and was one of the key players of that particular series.
He played 43 first-class matches with a total of 54 innings. He scored a total of 181 runs in those 54 innings and was not out 20 times. His highest score in this form of the game was 30 runs and he averaged at 5.32 runs. His statistics of bowling in first-class cricket was of taking 123 wickets and giving away 3234 runs. His best bowling stats were 6/26 against Sri Lanka. He had three five-wicket hauls. The span of his first-class cricket was from the 1971/72 season to 1983/84 seasons
Vince Hogg had debuted against Australia in Nottingham during the 1983 cricket world cup on June 9th and his second and final ODI match in the international scene was against Australia again on June 16th, 1983 at Southampton. His international career of one-day internationals (ODIs) were only 2 in which he was not able to take any wickets and gave away 49 runs in the 90 balls he had delivered. The economy rate of Vince was that of 3.26 in ODIs. The total runs he made while batting in these two matches were 7 runs not out. His strike rate was 36.84.
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