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Gareth Hopkins

New Zealand

Full name Gareth James Hopkins

Born November 24, 1976, Lower Hutt, Wellington

Current age 41 years 147 days

Major teams New Zealand, Auckland, Canterbury, New Zealand A, New Zealand Academy, Northern Districts, Otago, South Island

Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Explore Gareth Hopkins's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	4	7	1	71	15	11.83	277	25.63	0	0	8	0	9	0
ODIs	25	17	1	236	45	14.75	311	75.88	0	0	19	2	27	1
T20Is	10	8	0	86	36	10.75	71	121.12	0	0	5	5	4	2
First-class	158	245	39	7550	201	36.65			17	34			435	26
List A	203	175	27	4013	142	27.11			4	14			216	31
T20s	83	70	10	1279	71*	21.31	977	130.91	0	4	116	43	41	8

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	158		17	49	0	-	-	-	17.29	-	0	0	0
List A	203	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20s	83	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	England v New Zealand at Nottingham, Jun 5-8, 2008 scorecard
Last Test	India v New Zealand at Nagpur, Nov 20-23, 2010 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v New Zealand at Chester-le-Street, Jun 29, 2004 scorecard
Last ODI	India v New Zealand at Vadodara, Dec 4, 2010 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	South Africa v New Zealand at Johannesburg, Nov 23, 2007 scorecard
Last T20I	New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Lauderhill, May 23, 2010 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1997/98
Last First-class	Wellington v Auckland at Auckland, Feb 23-26, 2014 scorecard
List A debut	1995/96
Last List A	Auckland v Wellington at Auckland, Mar 30, 2014 scorecard
T20s debut	Canterbury v Otago at Christchurch, Jan 13, 2006 scorecard
Last T20s	Auckland v Central Districts at Auckland, Jan 14, 2014 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
7, 0c/1s	Auckland	v Wellington	Auckland	30 Mar 2014	LA
4, 0c/0s	Auckland	v Wellington	Wellington	26 Mar 2014	LA
8, 2c/0s	Auckland	v Otago	Auckland	23 Mar 2014	LA
1c/1s, 13	Auckland	v Otago	Invercargill	19 Mar 2014	LA
1c/0s, 2	Auckland	v Central D	Auckland	12 Mar 2014	LA
0c/1s, 20	Auckland	v Northern D	Hamilton	9 Mar 2014	LA
4c/0s, 32	Auckland	v Northern D	Auckland	2 Mar 2014	LA
70, 2c/0s, 1, 2c/0s	Auckland	v Wellington	Auckland	23 Feb 2014	FC
5c/0s, 3c/0s	Auckland	v Otago	Dunedin	16 Feb 2014	FC
4c/0s, 18, 1c/1s, 40	Auckland	v Canterbury	Christchurch	7 Feb 2014	FC

Profile

Gareth Hopkins was called up for New Zealand's tour of England in 2004 as wicketkeeping cover for Brendon McCullum and made five ODI appearances. Four years later it was a back injury to McCullum that handed Hopkins his Test debut at Trent Bridge. In the intervening years he returned to the sidelines until 2007, when he was awarded a central contract on the strength of a fine domestic season of 514 first-class runs at 85.66.

A former national youth team player, he switched from Northern Districts to Canterbury and then to Otago, where he made the keeping position his own. Uncompromising batting is another string to his bow and it helped him get picked in the New Zealand squad for the inaugural World Twenty20, although he did not play a match in the tournament. He switched domestic sides once more for the 2007-08 season, moving to Auckland. He lead Auckland to wins in the one-day and Twenty20 domestic tournaments in the 2010-11 season, but, following an ordinary 2010 on the international stage, he was dropped from New Zealand's central contracts list in 2011.
ESPNcricinfo staff September 2011

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