Carl Llewelyn Hooper was born on 15 December 1966 and is a former Guyanese cricketer who captained the West Indies in Tests and ODIs.
22 Facts About Carl Hooper
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Carl Hooper later captained Guyana to triumphantly claim three regional List A titles in 1996,1999 and 2002.
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Carl Hooper went on to make his Test debut against India in 1987, scoring his maiden century in only his second test of that tour.
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Carl Hooper was later named man of the match, scoring 81 and picking up 5 for 26 in the drawn second test of Sri Lanka's 1997 tour of the Windies, played at the Arnos Vale Stadium in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Carl Hooper later won the 1998 Walter Lawrence Trophy, which he shared with Ali Brown.
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Carl Hooper eventually spent six years at the English side and was later described by Jo Harman of Wisden as Kent's greatest overseas player of all time.
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Carl Hooper was usually placed in the slip cordon, taking numerous catches there, for the most part, in his cricketing career.
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Warne felt that determining when a batsman was going to give the charge was one of the most important things for a spinner, and that Carl Hooper was the best at making it indeterminable.
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Carl Hooper struggled early in his career, averaging just 26.08 in his first 38 Tests.
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Carl Hooper first announced his retirement three weeks before the 1999 Cricket World Cup but made a surprising comeback in 2001 as West Indies captain.
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Carl Hooper scored 233 not out, his highest innings in Test match cricket, during the first match of that said test series played in Bourda, Guyana.
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Carl Hooper steered the Windies to win the 2001 Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Cup, defeating India in the tournament's final.
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Carl Hooper then captained the Windies at the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
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Carl Hooper however pulled away to again retire from international cricket as he wanted a youngster in the team instead of him.
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Carl Hooper holds the accolade of being the first cricketer in the world to have scored 5,000 runs, taken 100 wickets, held 100 catches and received 100 caps in both ODIs and Tests, a feat only matched since by Jacques Kallis.
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Carl Hooper is the Windies' fifth highest spinning wicket taker, with 114 scalps in Test Matches.
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Since the late 1990s while still playing for West Indies, Carl Hooper has lived, with wife Constance in Adelaide South Australia.
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Carl Hooper invested in various businesses in Australia and overseas.
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Carl Hooper went on to complete a level 3 coaching accreditation with Cricket Australia in 2010.
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Carl Hooper has been involved with the SACA since 2010 to date, intermittently.
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Carl Hooper has done various commentary gigs on radio and television.
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Carl Hooper later joined up in January 2015, with the Guyana Amazon Warriors, as the CPL side's new head coach.