Cyril Hopkins
FullnameCyril Cooper Hopkins
Birth date4 May 1882
Birth placeYass, New South Wales, Australia
Death date25 September 1968 (aged 86)
Death placeWahroonga, Sydney, Australia
RoleBatsman
Club 1Otago
Year 11908/09–1912/13
Columns1
Column 1First-class
Matches 19
Runs 1448
Bat avg 126.35
100s/50s 11/1
Top score 1132
Deliveries 160
Wickets 10
Bowl avg 1
Fivefor 1
Tenfor 1
Best bowling 1
Catches/stumpings 12/–
Date8 February
Year2021
Sourcehttp://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37435.html Cricinfo

Cyril Cooper Hopkins (4 May 1882 – 25 September 1968) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played nine first-class matches for Otago between 1908 and 1913.[1]

After playing grade cricket in Sydney, Hopkins moved to Dunedin in 1908.[2] In the Plunket Shield in 1911–12 he became the first Otago batsman to score a century against Canterbury, though the annual first-class match between the two had been held since 1863–64.[3] Opening the batting, he scored 132, exactly double the next-highest score in the match, but Canterbury won by three wickets.[4]

Hopkins returned to Sydney in 1913, just when he was contending for a place in the New Zealand team.[5] He married Thelma Rickaby in Brisbane in January 1924.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Cyril Hopkins". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Cricket Chatter". Evening Star. 18 November 1913.
  3. ^ "Overseas Cricket Chat", Cricket, February 1914, pp. 31–34.
  4. ^ "Canterbury v Otago 1911-12". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Cricket Chatter". Evening Star. 14 October 1913.
  6. ^ "Maleny Wedding". Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser. 1 February 1924.