Cyril Cooper Hopkins (4 May 1882 – 25 September 1968) was a New Zealand

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er. He played nine first-class matches for

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between 1908 and 1913. After playing grade cricket in

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, Hopkins moved to Dunedin in 1908. In the Plunket Shield in 1911–12 he became the first Otago batsman to score a

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against Canterbury, though the annual first-class match between the two had been held since 1863–64. Opening the batting, he scored 132, exactly double the next-highest score in the match, but Canterbury won by three wickets. Hopkins returned to Sydney in 1913, just when he was contending for a place in the New Zealand team. He married Thelma Rickaby in Brisbane in January 1924.

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