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Full name James Redfern Hopes
Born October 24, 1978, Townsville, Queensland
Current age 29 years 354 days
Major teams Australia,Kings XI Punjab,Queensland
Nickname Catfish
Playing role All-rounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
1.80 m
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
36
24
2
499
63
22.68
536
93.09
0
1
43
1
11
0
T20Is
4
1
0
17
17
17.00
20
85.00
0
0
2
0
1
0
First-class
50
84
1
2655
146
31.98
5
13
22
0
List A
115
92
10
2187
115
26.67
2550
85.76
2
11
32
0
Twenty20
27
23
0
406
71
17.65
304
133.55
0
3
53
10
8
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
36
31
1259
884
27
3/30
3/30
32.74
4.21
46.6
0
0
0
T20Is
4
4
72
72
4
2/26
2/26
18.00
6.00
18.0
0
0
0
First-class
50
6658
3122
90
6/70
34.68
2.81
73.9
4
1
0
List A
115
5053
3806
143
5/29
5/29
26.61
4.51
35.3
5
1
0
Twenty20
27
24
423
629
16
2/2
2/2
39.31
8.92
26.4
0
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
New Zealand v Australia at Wellington, Mar 1, 2005 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v Bangladesh at Darwin, Sep 6, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 scorecard
Last T20I
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 20, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
2001/02
Last First-class
Queensland v Tasmania at Brisbane, Oct 10-12, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Australia v Bangladesh at Darwin, Sep 6, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Australia A v Pakistanis at Adelaide, Jan 13, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 20, 2008 scorecard
Profile
James Hopes was earmarked for higher honours in national youth teams, but took a few years to settle once graduating to the first-class level. If Shane Watson had returned to Queensland from Tasmania a year earlier, Hopes could have spent 2004-05 pushing for a state place rather than impressing the Australia selectors and earning a one-day tour of New Zealand. A brisk medium-pacer whose aggressive, exciting batting has been shuffled around the Queensland order, he has improved at regular intervals, scoring five Pura Cup centuries.
In 2007-08 he experienced his busiest campaign with 24 ODIs as he took part in all of Australia's one-day series. A batting Mr Fix-it, he was used as an opener in two games of the CB Series and was also productive in the lower order - his 63 off 80 balls in the second final almost kept the contest alive. There was usually a breakthrough in every game and his multi-purpose skills became highly valued by the team. The IPL franchise King's XI Punjab picked him up and he was a fine contributor in the opening season.
Bowling was his main weapon in the domestic competition in 2005-06 - he collected 15 wickets at 18.33 in the ING Cup and 16 at 22.56 in the Pura Cup - but he was unable to transfer his regular success into the international arena. Adding eight ODI appearances, he did not take more than a wicket in a match, although his batting showed promise with a top score of 43 against Sri Lanka. Hopes was dropped from the squad at the end of the VB Series and missed the tour to South Africa, but when Watson suffered a calf problem in Bangladesh he was replaced by his Queensland team-mate. Despite the late-season promotion, Hopes was cut from the national contract list and told to re-impress in interstate competition. He did that for Queensland in 2006-07, scoring 553 runs and taking 21 wickets in the Pura Cup, and capturing a season-high 20 victims and a first one-day century in the FR Cup. When another Watson injury occurred Hopes was put on World Cup standby before regaining his Cricket Australia deal.
A regular sweater in the gym, Hopes would love to be a professional golfer, but instead drives powerfully through the covers. Evenly balanced as an allrounder - both disciplines still need polish to survive in the international game - his bowling has variety and tight final overs have regularly picked up wickets and saved runs. Only Michael Kasprowicz has more one-day victims for Queensland than Hopes, who made his debut in 2001. He began with Queensland's Emerging Players as a 13-year-old and played in the state's under-age sides before progressing to the Australia Under-19 team - he scored 105, 71 and 51 at the 1998 Youth World Cup - and the Academy. Peter English August 2008
