HE is more renowned for his ability with the ball, but Newcastle veteran Michael Hogan has produced another remarkable rearguard batting display for Glamorgan in the English county cricket championship.
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Hogan, who claims tongue-in-cheek on his Twitter profile that "you probably haven't scored more runs at 11 than me", walked to the crease on day one against Northampton with his team in strife at 9-135.
Sixty-eight balls later, Glamorgan were finally dismissed for 259 after a record 124-run last-wicket stand between Hogan and No.6 Callum Taylor, making his first-class debut.
Taylor finished on 106 from 94 balls, with six sixes, while Hogan chimed in with an unbeaten 33 from 20 balls, including three fours and two sixes. One of his sixes reportedly landed in the garden of a house across the road.
Hogan, 39, has made a habit of tailend heroics. During a seven-year career with Western Australia, he scored more runs than any No.11 in Sheffield Shield history.
The former Merewether paceman has scored 2222 runs at 16.4 for Glamorgan and Western Australia in red-ball cricket, with three half-centuries. In the 2012-13 Shield season, he and Ashton Agar shared last-wicket stands of 94 against Queensland and then 68 against South Australia.
Before the game against Northants started, Hogan needed one wicket for 600 in first-class matches.
He has dismissed a further 207 batsmen in the white-ball formats.
Meanwhile, former Newcastle University all-rounder Grant Stewart scored 58 for Kent against a Surrey attack spearheaded by Test star Sam Curran (3-65).
The 26-year-old, who qualified for an EU passport through his Italian mother, debuted for Kent in 2017 and is playing in his 20th first-class match.
