A Kyle Hogg surprise

Kyle Hogg's been around the Lancashire first-team for a few seasons now. He originally showed quite a bit of promise, but he had a few injuries or something and he's been in and out of the team. With Saj Mahmood, James Anderson, Dominic Cork and Glenn Chapple around, not to mention Tom Smith, it can be hard to get into this side.

There are a number of young players who are similar to Kyle Hogg at Lancashire. Players who you're not sure whether batting or bowling is their strongest suit. Most of them have good sound Lancastrian names which are hard to differentiate between. We can remember Kyle Hogg's name, but we still sort of lump him in with these guys who only a play a few one-dayers and the odd county match; bat at eight and bowl a few overs.

We watched him yesterday though and he bowled really well. We checked out his profile on Cricinfo this morning and knock us out with a girder and paint us red, but if he isn't Sonny Ramadhin's grandson. That's 'the great Sonny Ramadhin' to you. Sonny Ramadhin was one of the West Indies' finest ever spinners. He bowled in tandem with his 'spin twin' Alf Valentine and could reputedly spin the ball both ways. We're going to say that he invented the doosra, the off-spinner's wrong 'un, then hopefully someone more knowledgeable can put us straight in the comments and we won't have to do any research.

And we thought that Kyle Hogg was just some nobody. Maybe we should check out the rest of the nobodies. You never know what you're missing.