Carl Hooper
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| Carl Hooper | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 102 | 227 | ||
| Runs scored | 5762 | 5761 | ||
| Batting average | 36.46 | 35.34 | ||
| 100s/50s | 13/27 | 7/29 | ||
| Top score | 233 | 113* | ||
| Balls bowled | 13794 | 9573 | ||
| Wickets | 114 | 193 | ||
| Bowling average | 49.42 | 36.05 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 4 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 5/26 | 4/34 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 115/0 | 120/0 | ||
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Carl Llewellyn Hooper (born December 15, 1966 in Georgetown, Guyana) was a West Indian cricket player and captain, renowned for his exquisite batting style.
He was a right-handed batsman and off-spin bowler, who came to prominence in the late 1980s in a side that included such phenomenal talent as Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Malcolm Marshall and Courtney Walsh and represented the West Indies over a 21-year international career.
His highest innings score of 233 was made during a Test series in India in 2001. He has made 5762 runs in his Test cricket career. Hooper could be an erratic Test batsman, as his low average of 36.46 over 102 Tests shows. In ODI play, Hooper's aggressive style of batting faired better, he averaged a credible 35.34 off 227 matches.
Hooper represented Guyana at local first-class level, and played English county cricket for Kent and Lancashire. In 2003, Hooper became only the second player to have scored a century against all 18 county teams.[1]
Despite his lower than perhaps expected average, Hooper holds the accolade of being the first cricketer in the world to have scored 5000 runs, taken 100 wickets, held 100 catches and received 100 caps in both ODIs and Tests, a feat only matched since by Jacques Kallis. [2]
[edit] Talent versus Accomplishments
Carl Hooper personified the talented batsman who found ways to not get the runs on the board. Hooper had the timing to match the game's greatest, often scoring boundaries in a fashion that appeared effortless to spectators - a perfectly timed weight shift, or roll of the wrists. In his autobiography, Steve Waugh himself said that "quickness of feet and sweet yet brutually efficient stroke play were Hooper's trademarks."[3] However, he was routinely prematurely dismissed after losses in concentration.
Hooper was also an excellent slip fielder, usually at second slip; Hooper took numerous catches from the likes of Ambrose and Walsh.
[edit] References
- ^ Lynch, Steven (2 October 2006). The fastest hundreds, and a Case history. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
- ^ Cricinfo - Records - Test Matches - most matches and Most catches - One-day Internationals, retrieved 29 July 2007
- ^ Waugh, Steve (2005). STEVE WAUGH: Out of my comfort zone - the autobiography. Victoria: Penguin Group (Australia), 346. ISBN 0-670-04198-X.
| Preceded by Jimmy Adams |
West Indies Test cricket captains 2000/1-2002/3 |
Succeeded by Ridley Jacobs |
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