Hoggard keeps his chin up
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25-Feb-2013
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With Matthew Hoggard missing out on a central contract, his international career appears to be over. Hoggard, though, thinks there's a comeback left in him. "I am only 31, not quite ready to draw my pension or reach for the pipe and slippers just yet, thanks very much," he says as he looks on the bright side, rather unconvincingly, in his column in the Times.
I won't, for example, have to travel to Loughborough quite so often to undergo yet another fitness test or bowl another few hundred balls in the nets. Instead, I can just nip down to Headingley, do my stuff there and be back home for my tea in 20 minutes.
Mercifully, nor will I have to travel to London to sit through long, drawn-out meetings, such as the one that the England players had to attend this year when we were getting our new kit
In the Guardian, Mike Selvey isn't as optimistic about Hoggard returning to the national side.