Thomas Luke Lambert (born 9 May 1981) is an English

cricketer Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

. Lambert is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast medium pace. He was born at Ascot,

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...

. Lambert made his

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

debut for

in 1999 against

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

. From 1999 to 2011, he represented the county in 45 Minor Counties Championship matches, winning the Championship once as a player against Eastern Division champions Lincolnshire in 2008. Lambert also played 28 matches in the MCCA Knockout Trophy for Berkshire, winning it as a player in 2004 against Northumberland and 2011 against Hertfordshire in his final game for the county. His debut in the Trophy competition came in 2001 when Berkshire played

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

. In 2013 he took over as 1st XI head coach where he has gone on to win the championship in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022. As coach he also won the KO trophy in 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022. In addition to this Lambert led Berkshire to the Minor Counties T20 national title in 2018. In all over 20 seasons with Berkshire Lambert has won 20 titles with the royal county as player and coach. Between 2001 and 2005 he represented the county in 7 List-A matches, making his debut against the

Middlesex Cricket Board The Middlesex Cricket Board was formed in 1996. It is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Middlesex. The Board of the MCB consists of four representatives nominated by the Middlesex County Cricket Club, thre ...

in the

2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2001 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 1 May and 1 September 2001. It was the first Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy following its change of name from the NatWest Tro ...

and his last appearance against

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

in the

2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was the 4th Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, an English county cricket tournament, held between 3 May and 3 September 2005. The competition was contested by all 18 first-class counties, as well as 10 minor c ...

. In List-A matches he took 9 wickets at a

bowling average In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly use ...

of 23.00, with best figures of 2/19List-A Bowling For Each Team by Tom Lambert
/ref> and scored 24 runs at a batting average of 12.00, with a high score of 18 *. In November 2019 he was awarded the ECB Coach Of The Year award. In September 2021 he led an England XI at the T10 European Championships in Malaga, Spain. The squad returned home as champions two weeks later beating Belgium in the final by 10 wickets. A year later in 2022 the squad returned to Malaga to defend their title but fell short ending runners up to the Netherlands in the final by 4 wickets.

References

External links

Tom Lambert
at

Cricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a d ...

Tom Lambert
at CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Lambert, Tom 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Ascot, Berkshire English cricketers Berkshire cricketers