Cricket: Ex-Australia spinner Hogg admits to have considered suicide in autobiography

Sydney: Former Australia Test spinner Brad Hogg has revealed in a new book that retirement and a marriage breakdown led him to contemplate ending his life.

After seven Tests and being a key part of Australia’s 2003 and 2007 winning World Cups, Hogg said he had no other option than to initially retire from all forms of cricket in 2007-08 in a bid to save his marriage to former wife Andrea.

In his autobiography, “The Wrong ‘Un”, released today, he details the depths he plummeted to in the next three years when, with the marriage over, he turned to alcohol and was unable to find contentment in an office job.

“I parked my car at (Fremantle’s) Port Beach and went for a walk,” he writes.