Herbert Hopkins

Herbert Oxley Hopkins (6 ga Yulin 1895 - 23 ga Fabrairu 1972) ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ne ɗan ƙasar Australiya  wanda ya buga wasanni 85 tsakanin yaƙe-yaƙe. Yawancin waɗannan wasannin sun kasance ga Worcestershire da Jami'ar Oxford, kodayake ya kuma bayyana sau ɗaya ga Harlequins. A cikin ƙananan ƙwallon ƙafa, ya buga wa duka Tarayyar Malay States da Straits Settlements, inda yake aiki a matsayin likita.

 Tarihi 
An haifi Hopkins a Kudancin Ostiraliya, ɗan Herbert Horatio Oxley Hopkins (c. 1859 - 2 ga Afrilu 1944) da matarsa Fanny Hopkins née Newland (23 ga Yuli 1867 - 20 ga Mayu 1920). Fanny jikokin Rev. Ridgway William Newland ne kuma dan uwan Henry Simpson Newland ne. Mahaifinsa ma'aikaci ne na Babban Bankin Australasia a Eudunda, daga baya a Woodville da Grange, kuma ya kasance kyaftin din kungiyoyin wasan kurket na gundumar a waɗannan wurare.

Young Hopkins ta yi karatu a Kwalejin St Peter a Adelaide kafin ta tafi Oxford. Babban Yakin ya katse karatunsa, lokacin da ya ba da gudummawa tare da 7th Battalion, Liverpool regiment, ya ji rauni kuma ya koma Australia. Bayan yakin ya koma Oxford, yana karatun likitanci a Kwalejin Magdalen . Ya auri Dr. (Margaret) Elinor Jones na Tunbridge Wells a kusa da 1927; suna da 'ya'ya biyu. Ma'auratan sun shiga cikin binciken zazzabin cizon sauro a Malaya, kuma suna Singapore a lokacin da Japan ta mamaye tsibirin,  kuma an gudanar da su a sansanin fursunoni na Sime Road a lokacin yakin.

 Ayyukan wasan cricket 
Hopkins ya buga wa kungiyar cocin St. Margaret's (Anglican, Woodville) da Woodville Cricket Club kafin ya bar Australia. Ya fara buga wasan farko na Jami'ar Oxford a kan Free Foresters a Jami'ar Parks a watan Yunin 1921. Ya zira kwallaye 7 da 32 a wasan da ya ƙare a nasarar Free Foresters duk da innings na 202 daga kyaftin din Oxford R.L. Holdsworth. Bayan wasu wasanni uku na jami'a Hopkins ya buga sauran lokacin rani ga Worcestershire, kodayake kawai abin da ya samu shi ne 60 da ba a ci nasara ba a kan Lancashire a watan Agusta.

A cikin 1922 da 1923, Hopkins ya raba lokacin wasa tsakanin jami'arsa da gundumar sa. A watan Yunin 1922, a cikin nasara 15 ga Oxford a kan Sojoji a Oxford, ya zira kwallaye abin da zai kasance mafi kyawun aikinsa na 142 *, kodayake ya yi rabin ƙarni daya kawai a wannan kakar.[undefined][2] A farkon watan Yulin 1923 ya buga 100 * ga Oxford a kan Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) a Lord's, kuma ya lashe Blue lokacin da ya bayyana a cikin Varsity Match a wannan wurin 'yan kwanaki bayan haka, ya yi 42 a cikin nasara mai banƙyama-da-227-run nasara a kan Jami'ar Cambridge.[3][1] Ya ƙare 1923 tare da gudu na farko 729 a 27.00, ta wata hanya mafi girman lokacinsa.[2]

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Category:Mutuwan  1972