In May 2007 Hoggard's wife Sarah gave birth to a baby boy, Ernie, weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz.

[1] Hoggard began his cricketing journey at his local team, the famous Bradford League club, Pudsey Congs CC.

[5] Unfortunately, Hoggard did not pick up any wickets in his last two games making the Worcestershire captain, Daryl Mitchell, his last victim in first-class cricket, this was before he announced his retirement.

[6] Hoggard was initially brought into the England side under the wings of Nasser Hussain and Duncan Fletcher in 2000.

Of Englishmen, only Johnny Wardle, who took 12 for 89 in Cape Town in 1956–57, has bettered his figures in South Africa since World War II.

Hoggard performed well in the opening two warm up matches at the start of England's tour of Sri Lanka.

In the second of these, against the Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI, Hoggard took 5–25 in a match that saw Steve Harmison and James Anderson fall foul of injuries.

[13] Hoggard was considered a scapegoat for his sudden falling out of favour from the England and Wales Cricket Board.

"[14] Hoggard was released by Yorkshire at the end of the 2009 season and immediately linked with an unexpected move to Leicestershire.

In a 2015 analysis, statistician Andrew Samson calculated that Hoggard was England's best bowler, in terms of the batting average of the batsmen he dismissed in his career.

[22] Matthew Hoggard was a specialist orthodox swing bowler, and usually took the new ball for England in Test cricket.

Hoggard's primary role in the team was to utilise the shine on the new ball to test the technique of top-order batsmen against the swinging delivery.