Gareth Hopkins (cricketer)

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Gareth Hopkins
New Zealand
Personal information
Full name Gareth James Hopkins
Born 24 November 1976 (1976-11-24) (age 31)
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Role Wicket-keeper
Batting style Right-hand bat
International information
Test debut (cap 240) 5 June 2008: v England
Last Test 5 June 2008: v England
ODI debut 29 June 2004: v England
Last ODI 20 December 2007: v Australia
Career statistics
Tests ODI FC LA
Matches 1 8 102 128
Runs scored 27 9 4319 2196
Batting average 13.50 3.00 31.29 24.95
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 7/19 1/7
Top score 15 9 175* 130*
Balls bowled 6
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 3/0 8/0 263/18 126/22

As of 8 June 2008
Source: Cricinfo

Gareth James Hopkins (born November 24, 1976 in Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand cricketer. A wicket-keeper, he played five One Day Internationals in 2004 after Brendon McCullum went home from England for the NatWest series.

Gareth Hopkins returned to the international scene playing two matches in the Chappell-Hadlee one day series. The second match of the series and Hopkins' first was heavily rain affected, New Zealand reaching 3/30 when the game came to a close. The second and final match was won by Australia by a convincing 114 runs, Hopkins contributing 9 off 17 balls.

In the summer of 2007/08 he transferred from Otago to Auckland citing the fact that Otago had recruited Brendon McCullum from Canterbury. The move was surprising considering Hopkins scored 5 1st class hundreds for Otago in the summer of 2006/07. Recently Gareth Hopkins played for The New Zealand XI against Bangladesh scoring 12 runs and taking a caught behind.

Hopkins made his test debut on June 5, 2008 against England at Trent Bridge, as usual wicket-keeper Brendon McCullum played in a specialist batsman role. He contributed a total of 27 runs and took 3 catches in New Zealand's innings defeat.


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Player Profile: Gareth Hopkins (cricketer) from Cricinfo

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