Ivan Thomas

Ivan Thomas
Personal information
Full name Ivan Alfred Astley Thomas
Born (1991-09-25) 25 September 1991
Greenwich, Greater London
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm medium-fast
Role Bowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2012– Kent (squad no. 5)
2012–2014 Leeds/Bradford MCCU
FC debut 31 March 2012 Leeds/Bradford MCCU
 v Surrey
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 33 21 12
Runs scored 114 18 3
Batting average 5.18 6.00 3.00
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 13 6 3*
Balls bowled 4,159 1,036 210
Wickets 70 31 9
Bowling average 30.34 31.09 35.55
5 wickets in innings 1 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 5/91 4/30 2/42
Catches/stumpings 9/– 8/– 4/–
Source: CricInfo, 12 September 2018

Ivan Alfred Astley Thomas (born 25 September 1991) is an English professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He is a right-arm medium-fast seam bowler who bats right-handed. He made his first-class cricket debut for Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities in March 2012 and has played in all forms of cricket for Kent.

Early life and youth career

Thomas was born in Greenwich and attended John Roan School in Blackheath.[1] He played youth cricket for Blackheath Cricket Club and for Kent[2] before going to Leeds University to study Sports Science.[3] At university he was part of the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities cricket team. A series of back injuries in his late teens, including a triple-stress fracture of his back, threatened Thomas' career. He has credited Pilates and other core strength exercises with helping to save his career.[4][5][6]

Cricket career

Thomas made his first-class cricket debut for Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities in March 2012 in a match against Surrey.[7] He played six first-class matches for the team between 2012 and 2014 as well as playing in MCC Universities competitions.[8]

Thomas made his Kent debut in May 2012 against Essex in the 2012 County Championship.[3][4] He made a second appearance for Kent against the touring South Africans later in the season.[7] A variety of injury concerns limited his Kent appearances in 2013 and 2014,[9][10][11] but in 2015 he played more regularly for the side, making 11 first-class appearances as well as appearing in List A cricket and Twenty20 matches for the county and signing a contract extension in August.[7][12][13]

During the 2014–15 English winter Thomas played for Sunshine Coast Scorchers in Brisbane Grade Cricket in Queensland.[14] During the 2015–16 off-season he cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats, raising more than £4,000 for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young.[15][16]

During the 2018 season Thomas played regularly in the Kent side, especially in the County Championship. Towards the end of the season he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in training and underwent surgery in September to reconstruct the ligament with the expectation that he would be unable to play cricket for six to nine months.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Reid J (ed) (2016) 2016 Kent County Cricket Club Annual, Kent County Cricket Club, pp.30–31.
  2. ↑ Teams Ivan Thomas played for, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  3. 1 2 Ivan Thomas swaps uni books for wickets on Kent cricket debut, Dover Express, 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  4. 1 2 Ivan Thomas overcomes back injury to make Kent debut, BBC Sport, 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  5. ↑ How Ivan has defied back trouble to get out in front, Kent County Cricket Club, 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  6. ↑ Pilates saved my fast-bowling career, Men's Heath Forum. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  7. 1 2 3 First-class matches played by Ivan Thomas, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  8. ↑ First-class batting and fielding for each team by Ivan Thomas, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  9. ↑ New fitness regime to boost player power, Kent County Cricket Club, 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  10. ↑ The challenge of keeping the players fit and healthy - staff profile: Dan George, Kent County Cricket Club, 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  11. ↑ County Championship: Glamorgan behind despite Bragg ton, BBC Sport, 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  12. ↑ Kent: New contracts for Haggett, Qayyum and Thomas, BBC Sport, 2015-08-14. retrieved 2016-06-15.
  13. ↑ Hoad A (2015) Kent Cricket duo Calum Haggett and Ivan Thomas have signed long-term contract extensions, Kent Online, 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  14. ↑ Brand A (2014) Scorchers envision some joy in difficult pitch, Sunshine Coast Daily, 2014-11-02. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  15. ↑ Kent cricketer cycling for charity, Bucks Free Press, 2015-10-20. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  16. ↑ Ivan Thomas raises more than £4000 for charity, Professional Cricketers' Association, 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  17. ↑ Ivan Thomas: Kent fast bowler faces absence after knee surgery, BBC Sport, 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
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