Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club

Ian Hopkins

Played 1897-98 – 1900-01

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Player records

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Career totals

Career

Games

Seasons

1897-98 – 1900-01

Played

Batting

Innings

Not outs

597

Runs

High score

16.14

Average

50s

100s

Bowling

Wickets

Fielding & keeping

Catches

Stumpings

From the record books

First XI · 1897-98 to 1900-01 · 26 matchesFull archive career →

On this dayin 1899: 3 v North Melbourne

Season	M	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1897-98	6	150	40	21.43	–	–	–	10
1898-99	9	182	29	16.55	–	–	–	16
1899-00	7	109	39	15.57	–	–	–	11
1900-01	4	88	41	12.57	–	–	–	10
Career	26	529	41	16.53		0	–	47

Every scorecard · 26

1897-98	v St Kilda	28	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	v Carlton	10	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	v East Melbourne	3* & 40	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	v South Melbourne	7 & 1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	v Hawksburn	34	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	v Richmond	27	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v East Melbourne	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v Richmond	16	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v Carlton	11	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v University	17 & 6	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v St Kilda	20 & 22	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v Hawksburn	29	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v North Melbourne	28	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v South Melbourne	29	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	v Melbourne	4	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	v North Melbourne	3	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	v St Kilda	9 & 0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	v South Melbourne	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	v Hawksburn	15*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	v East Melbourne	31	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	v Carlton	39	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	v Richmond	12	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	v Hawksburn	20	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	v South Melbourne	4 & 41	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	v North Melbourne	14 & 0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	v Melbourne	8 & 1	–	Something wrong? Tell us

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv St Kilda, 1897-98
Highest score41v South Melbourne, 1900-01
Last matchMatch 26v Melbourne, 1900-01

Runs by season

Every innings, in order

Lighter bars are not-out innings. Hover a bar for the match.

Against each club

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Prahran	4	98	34	32.67
Casey South Melbourne	4	82	41	13.67
St Kilda	3	79	28	15.80
Kingston Hawthorn	3	74	40	24.67
Carlton	3	60	39	20.00
Richmond	3	55	27	18.33
Greenvale Kanagaroos	3	45	28	11.25
Melbourne	2	13	8	4.33
Melbourne University	1	23	17	11.50

Clubs that merged are counted as one, under today's name. Tap a heading to sort; open a club for every match against it.

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
1	2	0	23	17	11.50
2	1	0	0	0	0.00	1
3	3	0	38	22	12.67	1
4	4	0	57	39	14.25
5	5	0	26	12	5.20
6	4	0	50	34	12.50	1
7	5	0	145	41	29.00
8	5	0	112	31	22.40
9	1	0	0	0	0.00	1
10	3	1	75	40	37.50
11	1	1	3	3*	–

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
Top order (1–3)	6	0	61	22	10.17	2
Middle order (4–7)	18	0	278	41	15.44	1
Lower order (8–11)	10	2	190	40	23.75	1

Batted most often at 5th.

Scores and consistency

Ducks4
1–910
10–197
20–298
30–495
50–990
100+0

8.4% of the side's runs in the innings batted. Top-scored for the side 2 times.

Dismissals

Caught13 · 42%
Bowled13 · 42%
Run out2 · 6%
Caught & bowled2 · 6%
Stumped1 · 3%

Most often dismissed by: Warne (3), Marshall (2), Robertson (2), Trott (2), Carlton (2).

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
In wins	15	1	301	41	21.50	1
In losses	19	1	228	40	12.67	3

Batting first or second

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
Batting first	13	1	239	39	19.92	1
Batting second	13	1	179	34	14.92	1
Second innings of the match	8	0	111	41	13.88	2

As captain and keeper

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
As wicketkeeper	32	2	491	41	16.37	4
Otherwise	2	0	38	28	19.00

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	15	20	356	41	18.74
East Melbourne Cricket Ground	2	3	74	40	37.00
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	2	3	8	7	2.67
St Kilda Cricket Ground	2	3	37	28	12.33
Carlton Cricket Ground	1	1	11	11	11.00
Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	4	4	4.00
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	3	3	3.00
Richmond Cricket Ground	1	1	16	16	16.00
Toorak Park	1	1	20	20	20.00

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1897-98 to 1900-01: 7th of 27 for runs, 7th of 28 for matches, 1st of 24 for catches, 7th of 8 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 84th of 321 for runs, 104th of 345 for matches, 31st of 279 for catches, 78th of 126 for batting average.

Played like…

C Haralambopoulos1979-80 to 1982-83 · 21 m · 428 runs · 0 wkts
SG Helmot1993-94 to 2002-03 · 18 m · 355 runs · 0 wkts
J Hollioake1967-68 to 1975-76 · 34 m · 737 runs · 0 wkts
GD Sanders1972-73 to 1975-76 · 37 m · 692 runs · 0 wkts

The careers nearest Hopkins’s in length, runs and wickets a match, average and the balance of batting to bowling.

Most often alongside

Matches in the same side, from the published cards.

The shape of the career

Season by season

Runs, up

The arc

Ian Hopkins' best season with the bat was 1898-99: 182 runs from 11 innings at 16.55. The best ten-innings patch came in 1899-00 to 1900-01: 184 runs at 20.44. The leanest, 1897-98 to 1898-99: 139 runs at 13.90.

Batting average over the last ten innings, at each innings of the career.

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 3 innings: from v Hawksburn, 1898-99 to v South Melbourne, 1898-99 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 26 matches: from v St Kilda, 1897-98 to v Melbourne, 1900-01 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 5 innings: from v Melbourne, 1898-99 to v South Melbourne, 1899-00 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
41	v South Melbourne, 1900-01	Won
40	v East Melbourne, 1897-98	Lost
39	v Carlton, 1899-00	Won
34	v Hawksburn, 1897-98	Lost
31	v East Melbourne, 1899-00	Lost

More splits

Batting position over the years

Batted at 6th for 1 season, moved up to open from 1898-99, dropped to 4th from 1899-00, dropped to 5th from 1900-01.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1897-98	6	8	21.43
1898-99	1	11	16.55
1899-00	4	8	15.57
1900-01	5	7	12.57

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg
Home	15	20	1	356	41	18.74
Away	11	14	1	173	40	13.31

Home taken as the ground the club played at most in each season: Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Schramms Reserve.

By day

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg
Saturday	25	33	2	525	41	16.94
Weekday	1	1	0	4	4	4.00

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg
Oct	6	6	0	77	28	12.83
Nov	3	5	0	65	41	13.00
Dec	3	5	0	37	17	7.40
Jan	4	7	2	109	40	21.80
Feb	4	5	0	107	39	21.40
Mar	4	4	0	103	34	25.75
Other	2	2	0	31	27	15.50

Fielding

Season	M	Ct	St
1897-98	6	7	3
1898-99	9	10	6
1899-00	7	3	8
1900-01	4	6	4

Caught most off

G Beacham × 14
R Mitchell × 13
FA Tarrant × 10
M Ellis × 5
E Twentyman × 4
AE Sharpe × 1

Career figures combine what's recorded live in Morrie with the club's own historical records — averages are shown only where there's enough real data to be honest about.

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