Career
He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played from 1952 to 1962 for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. Hawkins was born at Alveston, Gloucestershire. Hawkins made 134 first-class appearances, scoring 3,755 runs 18.22 with a highest innings of 106, one of three centuries in addition to 17 half-centuries.
He held 78 catches and took 38 wickets 30.34 with a best analysis of 6–81, the only occasion when he took five wickets in an innings.
Hawkins died at Alveston on 27 November 2010.