Mike Hooper was a champion schoolboy cricketer at Charterhouse, and played for English combined schools sides in 1964 and 1965.
[1] He was the leading scorer when an MCC Schools team toured South Africa in 1965–66.
When Surrey won the Second Eleven Championship in 1968 he scored 805 runs at an average of 53.66,[3] including 168 in an innings victory over Kent.
[4] In 10 matches in the County Championship that year, however, he scored only 164 runs at an average of 11.71.
After the 1971 season he left cricket to work in the City of London.