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Full name Stuart Darren Thomas
Born January 25, 1975, Morriston, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
Current age 33 years 259 days
Major teams Essex,Glamorgan
Nickname Ted
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
6 ft 0 in
Education Neath Tertiary College
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
169
234
44
3977
138
20.93
2
18
56
0
List A
140
104
27
1273
71*
16.53
0
1
25
0
Twenty20
14
13
3
169
43*
16.90
111
152.25
0
0
26
2
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
169
26518
16023
504
8/50
31.79
3.62
52.6
18
1
List A
140
5384
4668
171
7/16
7/16
27.29
5.20
31.4
4
3
0
Twenty20
14
14
234
394
11
3/32
3/32
35.81
10.10
21.2
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class span
1992 - 2005
List A debut
1992
Last List A
Glamorgan v Kent at Cardiff, Jun 11, 2006 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Glamorgan v Northamptonshire at Cardiff, Jun 16, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Somerset v Glamorgan at Taunton, Jun 27, 2005 scorecard
Profile
Darren Thomas hit the headlines on his county debut in 1992 when he took 5 for 80 gainst Derbyshire at Chesterfield aged 17 years and 212 days. The young Llanelli pace bowler subsequently won a place in the Young England side, and he also started to show rice promise with the bat. Even so, he was erratic at times, and prone to no balls, but there was no denying that Thomas could bowl with genuine pace and hostility, as testified by a return of 6-20 in the Benson and Hedges Cup match with the Combined Universities at Cardiff in 1995.
He rather lost his way in 1996, but under the wise guidance of coach Duncan Fletcher he made rapid headway during 1997, and his greater accuracy and strike rate were two of the chief factors behind Glamorgan's Championship quest. Indeed, it was fitting that Thomas should bowl Glamorgan to victory at Taunton, and to the Championship title. He was deservedly awarded his county cap in the penultimate game of the summer and during the season he impressed many good judges.
He was suitably rewarded with a place in the England A party for the 1998-99 tour to South Africa and Zimbabwe. He responded with eight wickets in the first Test, and on his return to the UK he was Glamorgan's leading wicket-taker in 1999. He was called up again by the England selectors in 1999-2000 as a replacement on the A tour to New Zealand, and returned home to become the county`s leading wicket-taker in Championship cricket in 2000.
His aggressive batting in one-day games has helped to secure several victories, in particular the Twenty20 victory over Northamptonshire in 2004, whilst later in the competition a return of 3 for 32 against Warwickshire in the quarter-final at Cardiff helped Glamorgan win a place at the finals day of the Twenty20 Cup. However, his form slipped away and although 2006 was his benefit season, he left the county after 15 years to join Essex in 2007. However, he suffered a shoulder injury in pre-season training and was forced to retire at the end of the summer.
Andrew Hignell September 2007
