# Tom Collin

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**Thomas Collin** (7 April 1911 – 26 August 2003) was an English [cricketer](/source/Cricket) who played [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) for [Warwickshire](/source/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club) between 1933 and 1936.[1] He was born in [South Moor](/source/South_Moor), [County Durham](/source/County_Durham) and died in the city of [Durham](/source/Durham,_England).

Collin was a left-handed middle-order batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, though in a county team that included the [England](/source/England_cricket_team) [Test](/source/Test_cricket) bowler [George Paine](/source/George_Paine_(cricketer)), also a slow left-arm spinner, and the leg-breaks and googlies of [Eric Hollies](/source/Eric_Hollies), he was never more than an occasional bowler. He appeared first in eight matches in the 1933 season, and "showed real promise", according to *[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'*s review of the season, though he did not reach 50 in any innings.[2] He was again an irregular player in 1934, but at the start of the 1935 season he played a match-saving innings of 105 not out and shared a seventh wicket partnership of 199 with [Tom Dollery](/source/Tom_Dollery), who also made his maiden century, in the game against [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club); the partnership remains in 2015 Warwickshire's highest for that wicket against Gloucestershire.[3] He did not manage to build on this start to the season, however, although his fielding was exceptional: the [South African](/source/South_African_cricket_team_in_England_in_1935) [Cyril Vincent](/source/Cyril_Vincent) dropped his bat and stood to applaud the catch Collin took to dismiss him at [square leg](/source/Square_leg) in the touring team's game at [Edgbaston](/source/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground).[4] He was not successful in the 1936 season and at the end of the year he left the Warwickshire staff.[1]

Collin returned to North East England in 1937 and for the next 39 years he was the cricket coach at [Durham School](/source/Durham_School).[4] He played a few [Minor Counties](/source/Minor_Counties) matches for [Durham](/source/Durham_County_Cricket_Club) between 1938 and 1946.[1]

## References

1. ["Tom Collin"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28640/28640.html). www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

1. "Warwickshire Matches". *[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)*. Vol. Part II. 1934 ed. [Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack). p. 240.

1. ["Scorecard: Warwickshire v Gloucestershire"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15323.html). www.cricketarchive.com. 4 May 1935. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

1. ["Wisden Obituary: Tom Collin"](http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/208956.html). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack/www.espncricinfo.com. 10 May 2005. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

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