George Thoms
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | - | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 1 | 19 |
| Runs scored | 44 | 1137 |
| Batting average | 22.00 | 35.53 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 3/5 |
| Top score | 28 | 150 |
| Balls bowled | 0 | 32 |
| Wickets | 0 | 1 |
| Bowling average | - | 14.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | - | 1/8 |
| Catches/stumpings | 0/0 | 10/0 |
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Test debut: 25 January 1952 |
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George Ronald Thoms Order of Australia Medal (March 22, 1927 - August 29, 2003) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1952. He played 18 first-class matches for Victoria, one in 1946, and then more regularly from 1951-2 to 1953-54.
Born in Footscray, Victoria, Thoms attended Melbourne University, where he opened the batting with Colin McDonald. He also played first-class cricket for Victoria alongside McDonald, and they both made their Test debut in the 5th Test against West Indies at Sydney in January 1952, alongside fellow debutant Richie Benaud.[2] Uniquely, Thoms and McDonald opened the batting together for a Test team, state team, and club team in that season. A solid, rather than spectacular, batsman, he scored 16 and 28. Thoms was dismissed hit wicket in the second innings, treading on the stumps after pulling a Frank Worrell delivery for four.
Thoms retired from representative cricket to concentrate on his medical career, fearful that a hand injury could end his ambitions as a surgeon. He is thought to be the only Test cricketer to have been a gynaecologist. He introduced laser surgery to Australia in 1970s and was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1996.
He attended a reunion of 150 Australian Test cricketers in Sydney on 11 July 2003. He died a few weeks later, in Melbourne, Victoria.
