Education
Hopkins was educated at Street Peter"s College in Adelaide before going to Oxford.
Hopkins was educated at Street Peter"s College in Adelaide before going to Oxford.
The bulk of these games were for Worcestershire and Oxford University, though he also appeared once for Harlequins. In minor cricket, he played for both Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements, where he was working as a doctor. He made his first-class debut for the university against Free Foresters at The University Parks in June 1921.
After three more university games Hopkins played the rest of the summer for Worcestershire, though his only substantial score was an unbeaten 60 against Lancashire in August.
During 1922 and 1923, Hopkins divided his playing time between his university and his county. He ended 1923 with 729 first-class runs at 27.00, by some way his highest season"s aggregate.
That marked the end of Hopkins" university cricket career, but he continued to appear, albeit somewhat irregularly, for Worcestershire over the next four seasons. In late June 1924, he scored 137 in a losing cause against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, and in the same match picked up three of the only four wickets he ever took: those of John Gunn, Len Richmond and Fred Barratt.
(His other wicket, claimed earlier that same summer, had been that of Glamorgan"s Jack Mercer) Hopkins scored just one more century — 122 against his old university in 1925 — although he got a start in a large number of innings without pushing on to fifties or hundreds.
After the 1927 season, Hopkins ceased to play English cricket because of his work as a doctor in the Malay States, although he played minor cricket for Straits Settlements as late as 1938, by which time he was well into his forties. The exception was 1931, when he turned out nine times for Worcestershire in the County Championship during a period of leave. Hopkins acted once as wicket-keeper, for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Clifton College in 1921.