Brad Hodge

Bradley John Hodge is a former cricketer and Australian cricket coach. He is a right-handed batter who bats in the middle order, as well as a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler, who is Victoria's Top Scorer in the Sheffield Shield with 10,474 runs. However, he has represented Australia only in 6 tests and 25 ODIs.

Major Achievements:

• Prolific run-scorer in Australian Domestic Cricket, having the record of most runs (5,597) and most no. of centuries (20) in Australian interstate ODI matches
• On 21 January 2006, he became the first to score a century in the Australian domestic Twenty20, scoring 106 off 54 balls for Victoria against New South Wales.
• He made 99 not out of 86 balls to lead Australia to victory against New Zealand on February 4, 2007.
• On 18 March 2007, at the World Cup, Hodge scored his first ODI century against the Netherlands (Previously known as Holland). He scored 123 runs off just 89 balls, including 7 sixes and 8 fours and shared a 204-run record partnership with Michael Clarke, the highest 4th wicket partnership in the World Cup history.
• On 7 March 2009, he scored 261 runs during the match against Queensland at the MCG, where he became the 6th batsman to pass 10,000 Sheffield Shield runs.
• Included in the Cricinfo CLT20 XI in 2013 for his outstanding performances