Hogg experienced childhood with a sheep cultivate in Williams, Western Australia and is a previous student of Aquinas College, Perth. Afterward, he finished a Bachelor of Commerce studying Accounting and Marketing at Curtin University. Hogg made his five star cricket and household restricted overs make a big appearance for Western Australia in February 1994 as a center request batsman. He didn’t start to bowl left-arm wrist-turn until previous Australian test leg-spinner Tony Mann requesting that he bowl them in the nets as readiness for the batsmen to confront NSW spinner David Freedman. In 1999 he made a short invasion in umpiring Australian guidelines football, advancing up to Westar Rules Colts (under 18) level.

In 1996, he was chosen in the Australian group to visit India as a swap for Warne who was harmed. He made his Test make a big appearance against India in Delhi, taking 1/69 and making 1 and 4. He additionally played seven One Day International matches. Notwithstanding, the conviction at the time was that he was only a place-holder for Warne and he was disposed of from the worldwide squad for quite a while. Hogg was likewise all through the Western Australian squad for the following couple of years as he battled for shape. Hogg was missing from the universal scene until called up to supplant Warne amid the 2002-03 VB Series (a yearly tri-countries one day competition in Australia) after Warne harmed his shoulder. In any case, Warne then tried positive to a restricted diuretic in a pre-World Cup drugs test, leaving Hogg to play as Australia’s authority spinner in Australia’s Cup winning side and filled that job until his very own retirement, this was because of Warne’s retirement from the one day amusement.
Hogg was reviewed to the Australian Test group to visit the West Indies in April 2003, where he played two matches (making his hold up between his first and second Tests of seven years and 78 diversions the longest for an Australian [citation needed]). He additionally played against Zimbabwe at the SCG soon thereafter, however was upstaged by low maintenance left-arm wrist turn bowler Simon Katich, who took 6/90 for the match (Hogg took 3/119). He was let alone for the Test group pushy in 2004 yet stayed in the national one day group as the favored spinner to Stuart MacGill. In 2005-06, he turned into a one-day just player with Western Australian selectors wanting to play youthful spinner Beau Casson in front of Hogg in the state’s Pura Cup side. Be that as it may, with Casson’s turn to New South Wales in 2006-07, Hogg has recovered his place in the top of the line side. In 2007-08, following a four-year cutback, Hogg was reviewed to Test cricket to play against India after Stuart MacGill needed to pull back from the group because of experiencing carpal passage disorder in his knocking down some pins hand. On 2 January 2008, Hogg scored a Test-profession best 79 as a component of a 173-run organization with Andrew Symonds—a seventh wicket record for both the Sydney Cricket Ground and Australia versus India.
