{{short description|English cricketer (1908–1974)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Thomas Edwin Drakes | birth_date = 7 March 1908 | birth_place = Bardney, Lincolnshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1974|5|10|1908|3|7}} | death_place = Hainault, Essex, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast-medium | role = | club1 = Lincolnshire | year1 = 1926–1933 | club2 = Cambridge University | year2 = 1929 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 8 | runs1 = 140 | bat avg1 = 14.00 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 39* | deliveries1 = 1,213 | wickets1 = 20 | bowl avg1 = 32.40 | fivefor1 = 1 | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 5/70 | catches/stumpings1 = 6/– | date = 17 February | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12252.html Cricinfo }}
'''Thomas Edwin Drakes''' (7 March 1908 – 10 May 1974) was an English first-class cricketer.
Born at Bardney in Lincolnshire, Drakes made his debut in minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire against Buckinghamshire in the 1926 Minor Counties Championship.<ref name="MCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14858/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Louis Weigall |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-17 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire until 1933, making 42 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.<ref name="MCM"/> He studied at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1991 |first1= |last1= |page=380 |isbn=978-0-521-43468-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05AcAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> While at Cambridge he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1929, making his debut against Essex at Fenner's.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29150/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Thomas Drakes |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-17 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He made eight appearances in first-class matches during 1929,<ref name="FCM"/> scoring 140 runs with a high score of 39 not out,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29150/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Thomas Drakes |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-17 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> while with his right-arm fast-medium he took 20 wickets at an average of 32.40, with best figures of 5 for 70.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29150/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Thomas Drakes |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-17 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> These figures were his only first-class five wicket haul and came on debut against Essex.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/13/13023.html |title=Cambridge University v Essex, 1929 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-17 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
He later assisted the Army Cadet Force as a second lieutenant in the 1950s.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38962|date=7 July 1950|startpage=3504|supp=y}}</ref> He died at Hainault in May 1974.
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=12252}}
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