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Paul Hoffmann
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| Paul Hoffmann | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium-fast | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | - | 15 | ||
| Runs scored | - | 79 | ||
| Batting average | - | 7.90 | ||
| 100s/50s | - | 0/0 | ||
| Top score | - | 31 | ||
| Balls bowled | - | 629 | ||
| Wickets | - | 16 | ||
| Bowling average | - | 29.62 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | - | 3/22 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | - | 4/0 | ||
Paul Jacob Christopher Hoffmann born 14 January 1970, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, is an Australian cricket player who has played for the cricket teams of Scotland. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler.
After playing at low levels in the Queensland cricket system, he emigrated to Scotland, first playing for the Uddingston club as an overseas professional. He liked it so much that he stayed on and played as an amateur. As of the end of the 2005 season, he was the leading wicket taker in the history of the Scottish National League with 254 wickets.
He qualified by residence to play for Scotland in 2001, making his début in a match against an England Amateur team on 14 August 2001. He has since gone on to play for Scotland on 75 occasions. This includes five One Day Internationals, his first match of that type coming against Pakistan in June 2006. Taking 3 for 22 off his 10 overs including Younis Khan.
Paul played for Scotland in their winning 2005 ICC Trophy campaign and was the top wicket-taker in the tournament with 17 wickets. This included taking 6 wickets for 12 runs against Oman, a record for Scotland in ICC Trophy competition. In the 2007 World Cricket League tournament in Kenya he bowled Scotland to victory over Netherlands with a heroic last over taking 2 wickets in 3 balls for 0 runs with a run out accounting for the 2nd wicket of the 3 that fell in the over.
A hard hitting batsman, Hoffmann holds the record for the fastest century in Scottish National League cricket history, smashing 100 off 35 balls for his club Uddingston in May 2005. Hoffmann also impressed on his one day International debut, taking three wickets for Scotland against Pakistan on 28 June 2006. He has become an important member of the Scottish Saltires cricket team and is part of their squad for the Cricket World Cup in March 2007.
Hoffmann's father, Anthony, represents the Australian Woodchopping Team and was also a first grade rugby league player for the Brothers Club in Brisbane during the 1960's.
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