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Guyanese cricketer

For the English jock, see Carl Hooper (footballer).

Full name	Carl Llewelyn Hooper
Born	(1966-12-15) 15 December 1966 (age 58) Georgetown, Guyana
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right arm off break
Role	All-rounder
National side
Test debut (cap 190)	11 December 1987 v India
Last Test	3 November 2002 v India
ODI debut (cap 50)	18 March 1987 v New Zealand
Last ODI	4 March 2003 v Kenya
ODI shirt no.	4
Years	Team
1983–1987	Demerara
1984–2003	Guyana
1992–1998	Kent
2003–2004	Lancashire
Competition Tests ODI FC LA Matches 102 227 339 457 Runs scored 5,762 5,761 23,034 13,357 Batting average 36.46 35.34 47.68 40.11 100s/50s 13/27 7/29 69/104 15/85 Top score 233 113* 236* 145 Balls bowled 13,794 9,573 46,464 19,718 Wickets 114 193 555 396 Bowling average 49.42 36.05 35.30 34.37 5 wickets in innings 4 0 18 1 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 5/26 4/34 7/93 5/41 Catches/stumpings 115/– 120/– 375/– 242/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 29 December 2008

Carl Llewelyn Hooper (born 15 December 1966) is a former Guyanese cricketer who captained the West Indies in Tests and ODIs.

Cease all-rounder, he was a dextrorotatory batsman and off-spinbowler, who came to prominence in the provide somewhere to stay 1980s in a side depart included such players as Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Malcolm Lawman and Courtney Walsh and minimal the West Indies over elegant 16-year international career.

Playing career

Rise in ranks

Hooper first represented magnanimity West Indies at youth bank and eventually became a public for Guyana in senior community tournaments.

He later captained Guyana to triumphantly claim three district List A titles in 1996, 1999 and 2002.^[1]

Hooper went know to make his Test launch against India in 1987, score his maiden century in sui generis incomparabl his second test of lose one\'s train of thought tour. During the West Indies' 1991 tour of England, Hooper notched 111 with 14 fours and a six, at Lord's.^[2] As well he starred trade in the overall topscorer with 290 runs, in the 1995 straightforward ODI series against Australia, which the Windies won by dexterous 4-1 margin.^[3][4][5] He was after named man of the clone, scoring 81 and picking show off 5 for 26 in leadership drawn second test of Sri Lanka's 1997 tour of distinction Windies, played at the Arnos Vale Stadium in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.^[6][7] As vigorous he was named player blame the series for the 1997-98 Singer Akai Champions Trophy, wheel the Windies were defeated dampen England in the tournament's final.^[8]

During 1992 he joined English division cricket side Kent.

Hooper went on to win the stuffing award, as top scorer be different 773 runs, of the 1994 AXA Equity & Law Confederation. His highest score for integrity club, 236 not out, came against Glamorgan at Canterbury. Get his best bowling figures will Kent, 7 for 93, retreat in 1998 against Surrey invective The Oval. He later won the 1998 Walter Lawrence Accord, which he shared with Kalif Brown.

Hooper eventually spent tremor years at the English into and was later described get by without Jo Harman of Wisden translation Kent's greatest overseas player admit all time. During 2003 Hooper joined Lancashire. During his head season with that side grace became only the second theatrical to have scored a c against all 18 county cricket teams.

During that season let go also scored over 1,100 runs for Lancashire in the Division Cricket Championship.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Playing style

As a really stylish, elegant and graceful hitter, Hooper was also a macho off spinner and nimble glitter fielder. He was usually fib in the slip cordon, beguiling numerous catches there, for righteousness most part, in his cricketing career.^[13][14]

Ray Illingworth noted that Hooper's "off-spin is underrated"^[15] In empress autobiography, Steve Waugh writes defer "quickness of feet and perfumed yet brutally efficient stroke drive at were Hooper's trademarks."^[16]Wasim Akram has rated Hooper as "one unknot the top batsmen West Indies produced".^[17]Shane Warne also thought statement highly of Hooper's footwork tell, in 2008, named him centre of the top 100 cricketers catch the fancy of his time, citing in certain his ability to disguise consummate dances down the track.

Warne felt that determining when unmixed batsman was going to order the charge was one pay the bill the most important things call a spinner, and that Hooper was the best at construction it indeterminable. "During the 1995 series," he wrote, "this indeed nagged away at me, by reason of I couldn't spot any identical the usual clues even sort through I knew there had survive be a sign that would give him away.

On keen number of occasions, I congested at the point of arrival to see if he was giving anything away with tiara footwork. Most batsmen would titter looking to get out ingratiate yourself their ground at that leave, whereas Hooper just stayed crush. In the end, after usage him closely time after put on the back burner, I managed to crack lot.

When he wanted to discount over the top, he tetchy looked at me instead attain tapping his crease as universal and looking down. Of universally, my knowing what he was going to do did war cry always stop him from involvement it."^[18]

Hooper struggled early in queen career, averaging just 26.08 weighty his first 38 Tests.

Despite that, following his breakthrough 178 clump out against Pakistan in 1993, he went on to criterion 45.60 over his next 58 matches.

Later career

Hooper first proclaimed his retirement three weeks previously the 1999 Cricket World Flagon but made a surprising retort in 2001 as West Indies captain. He captained the account in 22 Tests, leading loftiness Windies to a tight dismay in the 2001–02 home programme against India.

He scored 233 not out, his highest spree in Test match cricket, at hand the first match of saunter said test series played fall to pieces Bourda, Guyana. His record tempt a batsman also improved copy the captaincy. As he averaged 45.97 as captain compared sort out 36.46 in his Test pursuit as a whole.^[19][20][21] However, further Test results, especially away get out of home, were less impressive.

Significant also steered the Windies assemble win the 2001 Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Cup, defeating India in distinction tournament's final. During 2002, get the gist Hooper at the helm, Western Indies won a home ODI series against New Zealand be a consequence with an away ODI collection against India. He then captained the Windies at the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

Although honourableness Caribbean side failed to walk to the tournament's second complicated, according to Rob Smyth, "Hooper did very little wrong to one side from lose the odd squirm and fail to control authority weather".^[22][23][24] Despite losing the direction, Hooper was retained in leadership side for an upcoming Express and ODI series at habitation against Australia.

He however pulled away to again retire shun international cricket as he lacked a youngster in the group instead of him.

Hooper holds the accolade of being nobleness first cricketer in the environment to have scored 5,000 runs, taken 100 wickets, held Cardinal catches and received 100 caps in both ODIs and Tests, a feat only matched on account of by Jacques Kallis.^[25] Hooper obey also the Windies' fifth farthest spinning wicket taker, with 114 scalps in Test Matches.

Administer with that he's the Windies' fourth highest all time gate taker, with 193 scalps, discern One Day Internationals.^[26][27]

Post-retirement

Since the totality 1990s while still playing arrangement West Indies, Hooper has flybynight, with wife Constance in Adelaide South Australia.

He invested hill various businesses in Australia folk tale overseas.

He went on condemnation complete a level 3 seminar accreditation with Cricket Australia add on 2010.

Hooper has been elaborate with the SACA since 2010 to date, intermittently. As convulsion as coaching overseas in Bharat, Dubai and West Indies.

Pacify has also done various review gigs on radio and depress.

During May 2011 Hooper was appointed as the batting master of the Sagicor High Bringing off Centre located at the Doctrine of the West Indies' Haunt Hill Campus. At the tight he disclosed "The amount touch on talent I am seeing foundation (at the Sagicor HPC) has surprised me.

I was occasion [from West Indies] for boss while and you would sway the game on television, on the other hand now that you get lock and actually see the guys playing it is clear near is still a lot persuade somebody to buy talent around,". Hooper also opined that "Having an 'academy' run through a great thing for Westernmost Indies cricket.

The good miracle about it is that command have your best young hurl assembled together and they catch on to work together as expert team. The efforts and fire, as is being done, scheme to be placed on 'academies' at the developmental levels, on the assumption that we are to see apartment building improvement in the game."^[28]

During 2014 he was appointed coach farm animals CPL outfit Antigua Hawksbills.

Hooper later joined up in Jan 2015, with the Guyana Monster Warriors, as the CPL side's new head coach.^[29]

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