Lynne Thomas
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Full name | Derryth Lynne Thomas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Llanelli,Carmarthenshire,Wales | 29 September 1939|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-armoff break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap68) | 9 July 1966 England vNew Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 24 July 1976 England vAustralia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap10/24) | 23 June 1973 England vInternational XI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 6 February 1982 International XI vIndia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1966–1986 | West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,4 March 2021 |
Derryth Lynne Thomas(born 29 September 1939) is a Welsh formercricketerwho played as a right-handedbatterand right-armoff breakbowler.She appeared in 10Test matchesand 12One Day InternationalsforEnglandbetween 1966 and 1979. She also played 12 matches for, and was captain of,International XIat the1982 World Cup.She played domestic cricket forWest of England.[1][2]
She opened the batting for England when they won the1973 World Cup,and, against International XI in England's opening game of the tournament, became the first woman to score a century in one-day international cricket.[1]In the same match, along withEnid Bakewell,Thomas set the record for the highest opening partnership inWomen's Cricket World Cuphistory (246).[3]
She also played hockey at international level for Wales. She was a full-time P.E. teacher at Neath Girls' Grammar School.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Player Profile: Lynne Thomas".ESPNcricinfo.Retrieved4 March2021.
- ^"Player Profile: Lynne Thomas".CricketArchive.Retrieved4 March2021.
- ^"Records: Women's World Cup: Highest partnerships by wicket".Cricinfo.Retrieved7 July2017.
- ^Wilson, Biĺl (22 July 2017)."Women's world cup: Lynne Thomas and the cricket spirit of 1973".BBC.Retrieved22 July2017.
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- 1939 births
- Living people
- Cricketers from Llanelli
- English women cricketers
- England women Test cricketers
- England women One Day International cricketers
- International XI women cricket captains
- International XI women One Day International cricketers
- West women cricketers
- Welsh women cricketers
- Women cricketers who made a century on One Day International debut
- Welsh cricket biography stubs
- English cricket biography, 1930s birth stubs