Who will ever forget that final over at the Oval?
Jordan Thompson is a robust homegrown all-rounder who has shone both at home and abroad across the various formats of the game – from the County Championship to the Hundred.
Having made his first-team debut in 2018, Thompson’s breakthrough summer in Yorkshire’s first team was the shortened Covid campaign of 2020 when he claimed 15 wickets and hit 234 runs in four four-day Bob Willis Trophy games.
In each of the following two seasons, he was Yorkshire’s leading Championship wicket-taker, claiming 46 in 2021 and 42 in 2022, the latter seeing him take the new ball throughout.
In 2023, he added 30 Championship wickets and 32 in 2024 as the county achieved promotion to Division One. As well as claiming a best of 5-80 during the most recent summer, he hit two aggressive fifties in a haul 277 runs down the order.
He was also Yorkshire’s leading Blast wicket-taker in 2023 with 20, including a superb career best 5-21 in a win over Leicestershire at Grace Road. He achieved the same feat in 2024 with 20 scalps from 13 appearances.
As things stand, 28-year-old Thompson’s seam bowling is his primary suit, but he is a very useful and aggressive lower middle order batter.
With the ball, he is very versatile and is happy to fulfil any role. He has often taken the new ball. One his greatest abilities is also his availability. He is very rarely injured.
In 2022, he was the joint leading wicket-taker in the men’s Hundred, taking 14 for London Spirit. He achieved the same honour (12) for the New York Strikers team in the Abu Dhabi T10 League at the end of the year.
Just before the Hundred, he helped Yorkshire qualify for Finals Day of the Vitality Blast when he brilliantly defended a final over target of just five in a quarter-final win over Surrey at the Oval. Given the circumstances, you will struggle to see a better T20 over.
In early 2024, he helped MI Emirates win the ILT20 title in the United Arab Emirates and represented the Trent Rockets in the Hundred later in the year.
He has also played overseas T20 cricket in Australia’s Big Bash and in the Pakistan Super League.
Thompson played age-group cricket for Yorkshire from Under 13s and came through the Academy.
He is a Type One Diabetic, having been diagnosed aged 16.
UPDATED: Feb 2025.
