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October 29, 2007
Western Australia 277 and 6 for 289 dec beat Victoria 114 and 164 (Hussey 62, Hogg 5-62) by 288 runs
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Brad Hogg added to his Test credentials with 5 for 62 in a Man-of-the-Match performance as Western Australia crushed Victoria by 288 runs at the MCG. Victoria resumed at 4 for 116, requiring a further 337 to secure an unlikely win, but the Warriors needed less than two hours to collect the remaining six wickets.
The script looked written when David Hussey edged behind off Steve Magoffin without adding to his overnight score of 62 and Victoria then lost 3 for 0 as Hogg caused problems. Matthew Wade misjudged a pull and hit Hogg straight to short midwicket, Michael Klinger played on to give Trent Kelly his first wicket for Western Australia, and Hogg collected Shane Harwood, who skied a top-edged sweep to slip.
Darren Wates helped finish off the task by trapping Gerard Denton lbw and Dirk Nannes was the last man to go, misreading a straighter ball from Hogg that clipped the off stump. It completed a terrific all-round match from Hogg, who claimed 3 for 21 in the first innings and belted an unbeaten 58 from 42 balls.
Assistant Editor Possibly the only person to win a headline-writing award for a title with the word "heifers" in it, Brydon decided agricultural journalism wasn't for him when he took up his position with ESPNcricinfo in Melbourne. His cricketing career peaked with an unbeaten 85 in the seconds for a small team in rural Victoria on a day when they could not scrounge up 11 players and Brydon, tragically, ran out of partners to help him reach his century. He is also a compulsive TV game-show contestant and has appeared on half a dozen shows in Australia.
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