Cyril Hopkins

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Cyril Hopkins

| image =

| country =

| fullname = Cyril Cooper Hopkins

| birth_date = {{birth date|1882|5|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Yass, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|9|25|1882|5|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia

| family =

| batting =

| bowling =

| role = Batsman

| club1 = Otago

| year1 = {{nowrap|1908/09–1912/13}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 9

| runs1 = 448

| bat avg1 = 26.35

| 100s/50s1 = 1/1

| top score1 = 132

| deliveries1 = 60

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 8 February

| year = 2021

| source = http://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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37435.html |title=Cyril Hopkins |access-date=14 May 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}

After playing grade cricket in Sydney, Hopkins moved to Dunedin in 1908.{{cite journal |title=Cricket Chatter |journal=Evening Star |date=18 November 1913 |page=5 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19131118.2.22}} 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.[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1914/42/index.html "Overseas Cricket Chat"], Cricket, February 1914, pp. 31–34. Opening the batting, he scored 132, exactly double the next-highest score in the match, but Canterbury won by three wickets.{{cite web |title=Canterbury v Otago 1911-12 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8605.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=8 February 2021}}

Hopkins returned to Sydney in 1913, just when he was contending for a place in the New Zealand team.{{cite journal |title=Cricket Chatter |journal=Evening Star |date=14 October 1913 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19131014.2.33}} He married Thelma Rickaby in Brisbane in January 1924.{{cite journal |title=Maleny Wedding |journal=Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser|date=1 February 1924 |page=1 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/76534454}}