Carl Hooper West Indies (WI)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm offbreak
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	102	227
Runs scored	5762	5761
Batting average	36.46	35.34
100s/50s	13/27	7/29
Top score	233	113*
Balls bowled	13794	9573
Wickets	114	193
Bowling average	49.42	36.05
5 wickets in innings	4	0
10 wickets in match	0	N/A
Best bowling	5/26	4/34
Catches/stumpings	115/0	120/0
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Carl Llewellyn Hooper (born December 15, 1966 in Georgetown, Guyana) was a West Indian cricket player and captain, renowned for his exquisite batting style. December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... West Indies cricket team shirt (ODI, 2004) The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies, is a national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of the Caribbean countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ...

He was a right-handed batsman and occasional off-spin bowler, who came to prominence in the late 1980s in a side that included such phenomenal talent as Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Malcolm Marshall, & Courtney Walsh and represented the West Indies over a 21-year international career. Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context: Any player in the act of batting. ... Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his fingers to spin the ball from a right-handed batsmans off side to the leg side (that is, towards the right-handed... Bowler - a type of hat Bowler - ten-pin bowler Bowler - cricket player This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge was a West Indian cricketer, born May 1, 1951 in Black Bess, St. ... Desmond Haynes (born February 15, 1956 in Barbados) is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. ... Malcolm Denzil Marshall (April 18, 1958 - November 4, 1999) was a West Indian cricketer, regarded as one of the finest fast bowlers ever to have played Test cricket; some have suggested he was the finest of all. ... Courtney Andrew Walsh (born October 30, 1962, Kingston, Jamaica) is a former international cricketer (fast bowler) who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches. ...

His highest innings score of 233 was made during a Test series in India in 2001. He has made 5762 runs in his Test cricket career. Hooper could be an erratic Test batsman, as his low average of 36.46 over 102 Tests shows. In ODI play, Hooper's aggressive style of batting faired better, he averaged a credible 35.34 off 227 matches. Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ...

Hooper represented Guyana at local first-class level, and played English country cricket for Kent and Lancashire. First-class cricket matches are those in which both teams have two innings each and which involve either international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams. ... Kent County Cricket Club is an English county cricket club based at Canterbury, Kent. ... Lancashire County Cricket Club is an English first-class cricket club based at Old Trafford cricket ground, Manchester. ...

Despite his lower than perhaps expected average, Hooper holds the accolade of being the only cricketer in the world to have scored 5000 runs, taken 100 wickets, 100 catches and received 100 caps in both ODIs and tests.

Talent versus Accomplishments

Carl Hooper personified the talented batsmen who found ways to not get the runs on the board. Hooper had the timing to match the game's greatest, often scoring boundaries in a fashion that appeared effortless to spectators - a perfectly timed weight shift, or roll of the wrists. However, he was routinely prematurely dismissed after losses in concentration. At one time, Daniel Mueller, in his now defunct cricket newsletter, wrote that Hooper was like the actor Patrick Swayze - so much talent, but so few starring performances to show for it. Patrick Wayne Swayze (born August 18, 1952) is an American dancer, actor, singer and songwriter, memorable for his roles in the popular films Dirty Dancing (where he wrote and composed the hit song Shes Like the Wind) (1987) and Ghost (1990). ...