William Richard Keay Thomas (born 22 July 1960) is a former English cricketer

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 who played a single first-class

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 match for Worcestershire

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, against the Sri Lankans at Worcester in early July 1981. In a drawn game, he scored a useful 44 from number eight in the first innings, and made 13 not out

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 in the second.

The game mentioned above was Thomas's only first-team outing, but he made numerous appearances for Worcestershire's Second XI, on one occasion in 1980 taking 7/72 against Yorkshire

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II.