Having been born on November 11th, 1998, Thomas Banton is a cricketer who hails from England. In November 2019, he made his debut for the England cricket team on the international stage. While playing for Somerset in the NatWest Twenty20 Blast in 2017, Banton made his debut in the Twenty20 format of the sport on July 16, 2017. In the 2018 County Championship, which took place on September 18, 2018, he made his debut for Somerset in the first-class competition.
He became a fixture in all three forms in 2019, scoring two hundred in Somerset’s successful campaign in the Royal London One-Day Cup and a first-ever Twenty20 century against Kent in the Vitality Blast. In addition, he began scoring centuries in all three formats. The Brisbane Heat, who compete in the Australian Big Bash League, have inked Banton to play for them for the 2019/20 season. Peshawar Zalmi, a franchise that competed in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), selected him in the Diamond Category in the 2020 PSL draft. This selection took place in December of 2019.
The Kolkata Knight Riders purchased him in the latter part of the same month, at the auction for the 2020 Indian Premier League, which took place before the 2020 season of the league. Originally scheduled to play for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League for the 2020–21 season, Banton withdrew from the competition on December 5, 2020. It was in April of 2022 that the Welsh Fire decided to purchase him for the 2022 season of The Hundred.
At the County Championship match against Essex in July 2022, Banton achieved his first century in first-class cricket. This was his first century in the sport. The announcement that he will be a part of England’s team for the 2018 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup came in December of 2017. Banton was selected to be a member of England’s Twenty20 International (T20I) team for the series that they will be playing against New Zealand in September 2019. On November 5, 2019, he made his debut for England in a Twenty20 International match against New Zealand.
Tom Banton Biography
| Name | Tom Banton |
| Full Name | Thomas Banton |
| Date of Birth | 11 November 1998 |
| Place of Birth | Chiltern District, United Kingdom |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | British |
| Father’s Name | Colin Banton |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | Jacques Banton |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-Arm Off Spin |
| ODI Debut | 4 February 2020 vs. South Africa |
| Test Debut | NA |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Red |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
In the month that followed, Banton was selected to be a member of England’s One Day International (ODI) team for the series that they were going to play against South Africa. The first one-day international match he played for England was against South Africa on February 4, 2020. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Banton was included in a group of 55 players that were selected to begin training on May 29, 2020. These players were selected in preparation for international matches that would commence in England.
Banton was named in England’s 24-man squad on July 9, 2020, and soon after, he began practicing behind closed doors in preparation for the one-day international series against Ireland. During the one-day international series, Banton was included in England’s team on July 27, 2020. After losing the toss on the first day of the Vitality County Championship First Division match between Somerset and Kent at Taunton, Somerset was able to amass 440 for seven thanks to the aggressive centuries of Tom Banton and James Rew.
Rew stroked his way to 114, off 145 deliveries, with 12 fours and three sixes, in a recall of the form that made him one of the most talked about players in Championship cricket last season. Banton added a career-best 133, off 174 balls, with 19 fours and two sixes, while Rew stroked his way to 114. In a total of 42.4 overs, the partnership contributed 205 runs for the fifth wicket. A belting batting surface at the Cooper Associates County Ground was the setting for Tom Lammonby’s 69-run innings earlier in the game. Kent’s seamers struggled to get going on the surface.
An exciting morning session came to a close with Somerset scoring 133 runs against three wickets after 32 overs. Their innings got off to a horrible start when Sean Dickson hit a wide ball from Beyers Swanepoel and edged through to wicketkeeper Harry Finch for a fourth-ball duck. This event caused their innings to get off to a poor start. Lammonby hit three fours in a Swanepoel over, two of which were to a fairly short boundary on the highway side of the stadium. Soon after, Matt Renshaw and Lammonby were making batting seem to be a relaxing activity in the bright weather.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 2 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 9.00 | 20 | 90.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 9.00 | 20 | 90.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
Just after Banton’s stand with Rew reached three figures, he was able to withstand a quick opportunity to backward point off of Stewart during the last session. After putting in a lot of effort to attempt to replicate his early success as a one-day player in red-ball cricket, he finally achieved a ton of 150 balls, which meant a tremendous amount. This was all the good fortune he needed to attain that milestone. In the previous season, Banton only participated in one inning in the Championship tournament, and his only other hundred came in 2022 when he was a replacement for Essex at Chelmsford due to a concussion.
On the first day of Somerset’s County Championship match against Kent, which took place at Taunton, Tom Banton and James Rew combined to lead Somerset to a dominant score of 440 for 7. The partnership for the fifth wicket was 205 runs, with Banton scoring a career-high 133 and Rew adding 114. Together, they contributed to the partnership. Before that, Tom Lammonby hit 69 runs, which helped Somerset overcome an early wicket loss on a ground that was favorable for batting. The aggressive hundreds scored by the duo ensured a substantial total against a bowling attack that was having difficulty against Kent.
