Personal Life
In May 2007 Hoggard's wife Sarah gave birth to a baby boy, Ernie, weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz. She suffered post-natal depression, the marriage took strain, and soon he was depressed, too, "doing a Tres, going cuckoo," as he told Michael Vaughan in the middle of an over on one occasion.
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