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	Daniel Vettori (c)

	Brendon McCullum

	Grant Elliott

	Daniel Flynn

	Peter Fulton

	Mark Gillespie

	Gareth Hopkins (wk)

	Jamie How

	James Marshall

	Michael Mason

	Kyle Mills

	Jacob Oram

	Jeetan Patel

	Tim Southee

	Scott Styris

	Ross Taylor

	Jesse Ryder

Gareth Hopkins

New Zealand

Player profile

Full name Gareth James Hopkins
Born November 24, 1976, Lower Hutt, Wellington
Current age 31 years 321 days
Major teams New Zealand, Canterbury, New Zealand Academy, Northern Districts, Otago, South Island
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	1	2	0	27	15	13.50	116	23.27	0	0	3	0	3	0
ODIs	12	5	0	41	25	8.20	72	56.94	0	0	3	0	16	0
T20Is	1	1	0	6	6	6.00	10	60.00	0	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	102	162	24	4319	175*	31.29			7	19			267	18
List A	132	108	18	2228	130*	24.75			1	7			134	22
Twenty20	16	14	3	245	47	22.27	191	128.27	0	0	19	10	5	3

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	102		6	13	0	-	-	-	13.00	-	0	0	0
List A	132	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics
Only Test	England v New Zealand at Nottingham, Jun 5-8, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v New Zealand at Chester-le-Street, Jun 29, 2004 scorecard
Last ODI	Ireland v New Zealand at Aberdeen, Jul 1, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	South Africa v New Zealand at Johannesburg, Nov 23, 2007 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1997/98
Last First-class	England v New Zealand at Nottingham, Jun 5-8, 2008 scorecard
List A debut	1995/96
Last List A	Ireland v New Zealand at Aberdeen, Jul 1, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Canterbury v Otago at Christchurch, Jan 13, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Central Districts v Auckland at New Plymouth, Jan 30, 2008 scorecard

Profile

Gareth Hopkins was called up for New Zealand's tour of England in 2004 as wicketkeeping cover for Brendon McCullum and made five ODI appearances. Four years later it was a back injury to McCullum that handed Hopkins his Test debut at Trent Bridge. In the intervening years he returned to the sidelines until 2007, when he was awarded a central contract on the strength of a fine domestic season of 514 first-class runs at 85.66. A former national youth team player, he switched from Northern Districts to Canterbury and then to Otago, where he made the keeping position his own. Uncompromising batting is another string to his bow and it helped him get picked in the ICC World Twenty20 squad, although he did not play a match in the tournament.
Cricinfo staff June 2008

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