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Vic Hopkins

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Vic Hopkins
Personal information
Full name
Victor Hopkins
Born(1911-01-21)21 January 1911
Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, England
Died6 August 1984(1984-08-06) (aged 73)
Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, England
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1934–1948Gloucestershire
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 139
Runs scored 2608
Batting average 14.81
100s/50s 0/8
Top score 83*
Catches/stumpings 138/44
Source: Cricinfo, 3 August 2013

Victor Hopkins (21 January 1911 – 6 August 1984) was an English cricketer who played in 139 first-class matches for Gloucestershire between 1934 and 1948.[1] In his early first-class career, Hopkins was played as a wicket-keeper, but loss of form and injury meant that he was replaced behind the stumps, and in his last two seasons of regular Gloucestershire cricket, 1938 and 1939, he mainly appeared as a batter, sometimes opening the innings.

Hopkins' obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (published a year late, in the 1986 edition) recounts that he "came straight from village cricket to keep wicket for the county in May 1934".[2] The 1935 edition of Wisden recorded that "at the outset he showed remarkable form," but "about the middle of the season he had a bad spell with the result that in August he stood down".[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Victor Hopkins". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Obituaries in 1985". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. 1986. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Gloucestershire Matches". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1935 ed.). Wisden. p. 244.
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