Devon Cuthbert Thomas (born 12 November 1989) is a

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er from

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Career

Domestic

On 5 July 2009 he scored his maiden first class century playing for the Windies A against

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. He soon became a mainstay for the Leewards, being named as vice captain for their 2014 Super50 campaign. Thomas later joined the Jamaica Scorpions for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. He eventually returned playing for the Leewards soon thereafter. Thomas was the leading run-scorer for the Leeward Islands in the

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tournament, with 238 runs in eight matches. He was also the 2nd highest run-scorer for the team in the 2018-19 Regional Four Day Competition, and 4th highest scorer in the competition as a whole. In 2016, he was drafted by the

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. Since then, he has regularly played for them in the

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. In October 2019, he was named as the captain of the Leeward Islands for the

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tournament. He was signed by

Kandy Warriors Kandy Falcons (in 2022 and since 2024), formerly known as B-Love Kandy (2023), Kandy Warriors (2021), and Kandy Tuskers (2020), is a Sri Lankan franchise professional Twenty20 cricket team founded in 2020 that competes in the Lanka Premier Leagu ...

for the

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. He was drafted by Pune Devils for the 2021 T10 League. In July 2022, Thomas joined CPL side

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for the upcoming season of the said tournament.

International

A right-hand batsman and

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, he played only one season for

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before being given his

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debut on 28 July 2009 against

while the first team were involved in a pay dispute with the

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. He batted in only one innings, scoring 29 * from 32 balls, and took two wickets with his right-arm

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. Thomas is one of three wicket-keepers to have taken wickets in a

. He achieved this feat bowling against

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in the 2nd ODI of the 3 match ODI series at

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. He picked up the wickets of

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and

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, but could not prevent

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from losing the game. In June 2022, he was named in the West Indies'

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squad for their series against Bangladesh. He would go on to make his Test debut against

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later that year, on 8 December. On 23 May 2023, the

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(ICC) provisionally suspended Thomas and charged him on seven counts under its anti-corruption code, the most serious allegation being an attempt to fix a match in the 2021 Lanka Premier League.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Devon 1989 births Antigua and Barbuda cricketers Leeward Islands cricketers West Indies Test cricketers West Indies One Day International cricketers West Indies Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers at the 2011 Cricket World Cup Antigua Hawksbills cricketers Living people St Kitts and Nevis Patriots cricketers Kandy Falcons cricketers Expatriate cricketers in Sri Lanka People from Saint Paul Parish, Antigua Jamaica cricketers Wicket-keepers