Kim John Hagdorn is a former first-class cricketer

First-class cricket

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 and Australian sports journalist.

Hagdorn was selected as a right-arm medium-fast bowler

Seam bowling

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 and played the opening match for the West Australian first-class cricket side

Western Warriors

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 in the 1977/78 Sheffield Shield season. He only bowled 6 overs for no wickets and did not get to bat as Western Australia beat Tasmania by an innings and 14 runs. He was replaced for the next match by Wayne Clark

Wayne Clark

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 and was not selected again.

After his brief foray with the state cricket team, Hagdorn moved to sports journalism and is currently the chief Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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 writer for The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (Western Australia)

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in Perth. He also appears on Triple M

Triple M

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 as a reporter for West Australian AFL

Australian Football League

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 games and is a regular contributor to 6PR

6PR

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's football coverage. He previously held a position as Communications Manager at the Western Australian Cricket Association

Western Australian Cricket Association

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.

In 2007 he was awarded the Geoff Christian Media Award and the Jack Lee Best News Story Award by the WA Football Media Guild.
In 2008 he was again awarded the Jack Lee Award for Best Football News Story by the WA Football Media Guild.

He currently gives an AFL preview on Fridays and review on Mondays on WA station 91.3 Sport FM.

External links

• Cricinfo article on Kim Hagdorn