Derek Graham Hawkins (18 May 1935 – 27 November 2010) was an English first-class

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played for Gloucestershire from 1952 to 1962. Hawkins was born at Alveston, Gloucestershire, and educated at the nearby

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. He captained the England Schools team in 1950, and signed a contract with Gloucestershire aged 16.'' Wisden'' 2011, p. 189. After a two-year break for National Service he became a regular member of the Gloucestershire team, without ever fulfilling his potential. The highest of his three centuries was 106, his maiden century, against

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in 1957, when he reached 100 in two and a half hours.''Wisden'' 1958, p. 569. His most productive season was 1961, when he reached 1000 runs in a season for the first time and took his best bowling figures of 6 for 81 against Kent. However, he retired at the end of that season, aged 26, to work in the family car dealership, Berkeley Vale Motors. Hawkins died at Alveston on 27 November 2010.

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