Ivan Thomas
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Full name | Ivan Alfred Astley Thomas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Greenwich, England | 25 September 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012– | Kent (squad no. 5) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012–2014 | Leeds/Bradford MCCU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 31 March 2012 Leeds/Bradford MCCU v Surrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 2 July 2016 |
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 debut for Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities in March 2012 and has played in all forms of cricket for Kent.
Earlier 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 park 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 and 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]
References
- ↑ Reid J (ed) (2016) 2016 Kent County Cricket Club Annual, Kent County Cricket Club, pp.30–31.
- ↑ Teams Ivan Thomas played for, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- 1 2 Ivan Thomas swaps uni books for wickets on Kent cricket debut, Dover Express, 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- 1 2 Ivan Thomas overcomes back injury to make Kent debut, BBC Sport, 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ How Ivan has defied back trouble to get out in front, Kent County Cricket Club, 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ Pilates saved my fast-bowling career, Men's Heath Forum. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- 1 2 3 First-class matches played by Ivan Thomas, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ First-class batting and fielding for each team by Ivan Thomas, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ New fitness regime to boost player power, Kent County Cricket Club, 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ The challenge of keeping the players fir and healthy - staff profile: Dan George, Kent County Cricket Club, 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ County Championship: Glamorgan behind despite Bragg ton, BBC Sport, 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ Kent: New contracts for Haggett, Qayyum and Thomas, BBC Sport, 2015-08-14. retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Brand A (2014) Scorchers envision some joy in difficult pitch, Sunshine Coast Daily, 2014-11-02. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ Kent cricketer cycling for charity, Bucks Free Press, 2015-10-20. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ Ivan Thomas raises more then £4000 for charity, Professional Cricketers' Association, 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-06-15.