[2][3] He played club cricket as a teenager for Eltham and then for sides across Metropolitan Kent, including for Blackheath against the touring Australian Aboriginal side in 1868.
[4] He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in 1868, playing against Sussex at Hove.
Coppinger played five matches for the county in 1870, although he failed to take a wicket and made only single-figure scores, and made his final appearance in 1873, taking his only two first-class wickets in a match against Sussex at Hove where he played alongside his brother Edward.
Another brother, Charles, and an uncle Septimus both also played first-class cricket.
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