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Welsh cricketer
Ian James Thomas
(born 9 May 1979,
Newport
,
Monmouthshire
) is a
Welsh
cricketer
who played for
Glamorgan
as a left-handed opening batsman from
1999
to
2005
. Thomas, along with
Graeme Hick
, held the record for highest score in the
Twenty20 Cup
from 2004 to 2006, after scoring 116
not out
to lead Glamorgan to a win with three balls to spare against
Somerset Sabres
in the group stages of the
2004 tournament
.
[1]
On his
County Championship
debut in
2000
, Thomas made 82 in a drawn match against
Essex
, described by the BBC reporter as a "dream debut".
[2]
It was to be his highest score in first class cricket, and he only made two higher scores in any form of the game, the aforementioned Twenty20 century and 93 against a
Durham Cricket Board
XI in the
C&G Trophy
.
After the
2005 season
, where Thomas' highest
first class cricket
score was 42, he was released from the club,
[3]
and currently plays some minor cricket for
Herefordshire
. He has also represented
Wales Minor Counties
.
Thomas played for Port Talbot Town in the South Wales Cricket Association between 2007 and 2008. In 30 matches, he scored 1295 runs at an average of 46.25, making three centuries with a highest score of 133. He also took 42 wickets at 29.83 with a best of 5/57. During his period at the club, Thomas formed a formidable opening partnership with his former
Glamorgan
county colleague
Dan Cherry
. He left at the end of the 2008 season to play for
Newport
in the
South Wales Cricket League
.
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