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Bradley John Hodge (born 29 December 1974) is an Australian and Victorian cricketer. He attended St. Bede's College in Mentone, Victoria. He is a right-handed batsman who bats in the middle order, as well as a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler. Hodge was a prolific run-scorer in domestic cricket, holding the records for the most runs (5,597) and most centuries (20) in Australian interstate one-day matches. He is also Victoria's highest ever run-scorer in the Sheffield Shield (10,474 runs).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sheffield Shield / Pura Cup / Records / Most runs )〕 However, his opportunities to represent Australia were limited to six Tests and 25 one-day internationals (ODIs). ==First-class career== Hodge debuted for the Victorian Bushrangers as a 19-year-old, and was nicknamed "Glovelick" by Dean Jones for the fact that he shared a bunkbed with his brother at the time of his debut. He was also called "Bunkie" for the same reason. Hodge played Lancashire League Cricket for Ramsbottom in 2000 and 2001, breaking the clubs batting record in 2001. Hodge has played with County Cricket teams Durham, Lancashire, and Leicestershire – where he made his highest first class score of 302 *. During his time at Leicestershire, he was accused of cheating by then-Derbyshire captain, Dominic Cork, by claiming a catch when it appeared that he had stepped over the boundary rope in a Twenty20 match in June 2003. Hodge had actually completed the catch cleanly, before running over to the crowd to celebrate.〔(Cricinfo – Cork slams 'cheat' Hodge and 'pathetic' Lamb )〕〔(Cricinfo – Cork handed fine and suspended sentence )〕 Hodge denied the accusation.〔(Cricinfo – Hodge considers legal action over Cork's 'cheat' accusation )〕 Hodge scored many runs for Victoria, and his consistency came together by the 2000–01 season, where he was consistently overlooked for selection, despite being one of Australia's premier domestic batsmen. He has argued he was the victim of New South Wales selection bias.〔('Hodge lashes cricket's alleged NSW bias', ''Herald Sun'' 27 August 2009 )〕 On 21 November 2007, playing for Victoria against Queensland, Hodge made his highest Pura Cup score of 286 *. He and Nick Jewell had batted undefeated for the entire third day of the game, only the fourth wicketless day's play in the history of the competition. During the match against Queensland at the MCG on 7 March 2009, he scored 261. During this innings, he became the 6th batsman to pass 10,000 Sheffield Shield runs.〔(Cricinfo – Records – Sheffield Shield / Pura Cup – Most runs )〕 He also became the first to score a century in Australian domestic Twenty20, scoring 106 off 54 deliveries for Victoria against New South Wales at North Sydney, on 21 January 2006. In December 2009, Hodge announced his retirement from first-class cricket to focus on the one-day and Twenty20 versions of the game. Hodge finished his domestic first-class career as Victoria's all-time leading run scorer. In January 2012, he retired from one-day cricket to focus exclusively on the Twenty20 game. At the time, he was the leading run-scorer in the 2011–12 Ryobi One-Day Cup. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brad Hodge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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