Cyril Hopkins

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]

Cyril Hopkins

Personal information
Full name	Cyril Cooper Hopkins
Born	(1882-05-04)4 May 1882 Yass, New South Wales, Australia
Died	25 September 1968(1968-09-25) (aged 86) Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia
Role	Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1908/09–1912/13	Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 9 Runs scored 448 Batting average 26.35 100s/50s 1/1 Top score 132 Balls bowled 60 Wickets 0 Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 2/–
Source: Cricinfo, 8 February 2021

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]