Thomas Baker (cricketer)

Thomas Michael Baker (known as Tom Baker) is a first class cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Northamptonshire County Cricket Club between 2001 and 2005.

Tom Baker was born on July 6th, 1981 and is a right handed tail order batsman and right arm fast medium bowler.

In his solitary first class appearance, for Northants against Leicestershire at Grace Road in 2005, he scored a duck in his only innings, caught by Darren Maddy off the slow left arm bowling of South African Claude Henderson and took the wicket centurian Darren Robinson, caught and bowled for 139, at a match cost of 55 runs.

He played 4 list A one day matches for Yorkshire in 2001, 3 in the Benson and Hedges Cup and one in the National League. He also played for Northants in a one day game against the touring Sri Lankans in 2002 and for the Northants Cricket Board against Yorkshire Cricket board in the preliminaries for the Cheltenham and Gloucester trophy. He took 5 wickets for 194 in these matches, with a best of 2 for 13 against Derbyshire, at an average of 38.8.

He did not appear in senior cricket in 2006 but is still young enough to make a return.

References

* [http://content-www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/10250.html Cricinfo Profile]
* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34307/34307.html Cricket Archive Statistics]