A right-arm medium-fast bowler, Hoskin was the first person to bowl for Northern Districts in first-class cricket.
He opened the bowling in their first Plunket Shield match, against Auckland, on Boxing Day 1956.
[3] In 1962-63 he was a member of the first Northern Districts team to win the Plunket Shield.
He was a member of the Waikato team that took the title from Northland in 1956-57 when he took 5 for 33 and 5 for 55 in a 102-run victory, a few days before his first-class debut.
[6] His administrative career culminated in a three-year term as President of New Zealand Cricket from 2000 to 2003.