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Full name James Redfern Hopes
Born October 24, 1978, Townsville, Queensland
Current age 29 years 206 days
Major teams Australia,Kings XI Punjab,Queensland
Nickname Catfish
Playing role All-rounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
1.80 m
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
28
19
1
433
63
24.05
468
92.52
0
1
35
1
8
0
T20Is
3
1
0
17
17
17.00
20
85.00
0
0
2
0
1
0
First-class
49
82
1
2648
146
32.69
5
13
22
0
List A
107
87
9
2121
115
27.19
2482
85.45
2
11
29
0
Twenty20
22
19
0
340
71
17.89
253
134.38
0
2
44
9
6
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
28
25
1031
719
21
2/16
2/16
34.23
4.18
49.0
0
0
0
T20Is
3
3
60
59
4
2/26
2/26
14.75
5.90
15.0
0
0
0
First-class
49
6546
3081
85
6/70
36.24
2.82
77.0
3
1
0
List A
107
4825
3641
137
5/29
5/29
26.57
4.52
35.2
5
1
0
Twenty20
22
19
357
531
13
2/2
2/2
40.84
8.92
27.4
0
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
New Zealand v Australia at Wellington, Mar 1, 2005 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v India at Brisbane, Mar 4, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 scorecard
Last T20I
Australia v India at Melbourne, Feb 1, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
2001/02
Last First-class
Tasmania v Queensland at Hobart, Jan 21-24, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Australia v India at Brisbane, Mar 4, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Australia A v Pakistanis at Adelaide, Jan 13, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab at Delhi, May 17, 2008 scorecard
Profile
James Hopes was earmarked for higher honours in national youth teams, but took a few years to settle once graduating to the first-class level. If Shane Watson had returned to Queensland from Tasmania a year earlier, Hopes could have spent 2004-05 pushing for a state place rather than impressing the Australia selectors and earning a one-day tour of New Zealand. A brisk medium-pacer whose aggressive, exciting batting has been shuffled around the Queensland order, he has improved at regular intervals, scoring four Pura Cup centuries.
Bowling was his main weapon in the domestic competition in 2005-06 - he collected 15 wickets at 18.33 in the ING Cup and 16 at 22.56 in the Pura Cup - but he was unable to transfer his regular success into the international arena. Adding eight ODI appearances, he did not take more than a wicket in a match, although his batting showed promise with a top score of 43 against Sri Lanka. Hopes was dropped from the squad at the end of the VB Series and missed the tour to South Africa, but when Watson suffered a calf problem in Bangladesh he was replaced by his Queensland team-mate. Despite the late-season promotion, Hopes was cut from the national contract list and told to re-impress in interstate competition. He did that for Queensland in 2006-07, scoring 553 runs and taking 21 wickets in the Pura Cup, and capturing a season-high 20 victims and a first one-day century in the FR Cup. When another Watson injury occurred Hopes was put on World Cup standby before regaining his Cricket Australia deal.
A regular sweater in the gym, Hopes would love to be a professional golfer, but instead drives powerfully through the covers. Evenly balanced as an allrounder - both disciplines still need polish to survive in the international game - his bowling has variety and tight final overs have regularly picked up wickets and saved runs. Only Michael Kasprowicz has more one-day victims for Queensland than Hopes, who made his debut in 2001. He began with Queensland's Emerging Players as a 13-year-old and played in the state's under-age sides before progressing to the Australia Under-19 team - he scored 105, 71 and 51 at the 1998 Youth World Cup - and the Academy. Peter English July 2007
