Tom Price Age, Stats, 105 FC Wickets and 8/27

Tom Price career statistics

It also records 1,449 runs, including one hundred and seven fifties.

The List A and T20 rows remain separate: 19 wickets in List A cricket and five in T20s. Match hauls, innings hauls and best figures are already contained in the relevant aggregates.

Tom Price century and hat-trick record

Sussex's official signing announcement records Price making his maiden first-class century and taking a hat-trick against Worcestershire on 20 April 2023. The club identifies him as the first cricketer in first-class history to complete both feats on the same day.

The century and hat-trick describe two disciplines in one match day. The runs and wickets are already part of the later first-class aggregate and are not added again.

Tom Price 8/27 best bowling

The same official signing record identifies 8/27 against Warwickshire in 2022 as Price's best first-class bowling. The dated Wikipedia table retains 8/27 and records four career five-wicket innings.

Eight for 27 is an innings return, not a match total. It stays inside the 105-wicket aggregate and is not combined with the ten-wicket-match count.

Tom Price Sussex move and 2026 start

Sussex signed Price from Gloucestershire on a three-year contract beginning with the 2026 season. His first three Championship matches then produced second-innings scores of 73 against Leicestershire and 70 not out against Warwickshire, followed by 93 in the first innings at Yorkshire. The sequence gave him three successive scores above fifty and showed immediate batting value in different situations: setting a target, completing a chase and rebuilding after early wickets.

At Headingley on 24 April, Price made 93 from 159 balls with 14 fours and one six. He joined John Simpson at 150 for five and shared 165 for the sixth wicket, helping Sussex close the first day on 373 for six. Price reached fifty from 75 balls and attacked Jhye Richardson with a four and six from consecutive deliveries before Jack White eventually had him caught at second slip.

The innings fell seven runs short of a century, so it does not increase the one-hundred count in his career table. Its importance is the sustained start at a new county: Price had contributed at least 70 in three consecutive Championship matches, twice within partnerships worth more than 100. Those results support the batting half of the all-rounder label without replacing his bowling as the stronger long-term discipline.

How did Tom Price contribute in Sussex's 2026 One Day Cup?

Price made 55 in Sussex's opening 2026 One Day Cup match against Glamorgan at Neath. Jack Carson scored 81 and Fynn Hudson-Prentice 63, but Sussex finished 12 runs short after Glamorgan recovered from 54 for five through a 240-run sixth-wicket partnership. Price's fifty was therefore part of a competitive chase rather than a winning result.

The score also set a new personal List A high at that point, replacing the 55 already shown as his career best in the 25 July table. It was his only listed List A fifty across 18 matches at the cutoff. That makes the innings useful evidence of lower-order batting range, but one fifty and an average of 22.00 do not yet establish the same consistency that his opening Sussex Championship run displayed.

In the following match at Durham, Price was promoted into the chase after a century opening stand but was dismissed leg before. The contrast is informative: a half-century in one game did not guarantee a repeat contribution, and batting position can change with team composition and match strategy. His white-ball role should be judged across the full campaign, not from the Glamorgan score alone.

Tom Price all-rounder classification

The current Sussex directory lists Price as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. A record of 105 first-class wickets and 1,449 runs, including a hundred, provides substantive evidence in both disciplines.

The all-rounder label is therefore supported by the record rather than a decorative bowling style. Future API updates may change aggregates but cannot automatically rewrite identity or current-team context.

Who is Tom Price?

Thomas James Price is an English all-rounder born in Oxford on 2 January 2000. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. Price began his professional career with Gloucestershire, made his first-class debut in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy and moved to Sussex on a three-year contract starting with the 2026 season.

His name needs exact identity context because his younger brother, Ollie Price, also played for Gloucestershire. Tom is the seamer whose record includes 8 for 27 against Warwickshire, a century and hat-trick on the same day against Worcestershire, and a later move to Sussex. Those details prevent the brothers' statistics or team histories from being combined.

How did Tom Price establish himself at Gloucestershire?

Price signed his first professional Gloucestershire contract in January 2020 and made his first-class debut that August against Worcestershire. Sussex's later signing announcement records one wicket in the first innings of that Bob Willis Trophy match. From there, he built a bowling-led first-class role while developing enough lower-order batting to produce repeated fifties and eventually a hundred.

By 21 July 2025, when Sussex announced his move, Price had played 35 first-class matches and taken 94 wickets at 31.11. He had also taken 19 wickets in the ongoing 2025 Division Two season. Those figures explain why Sussex recruited him as a player for all formats: the bowling record was established, while a high score of 109 and a batting average above 25 added genuine lower-order value.

What happened on Tom Price's historic day in 2023?

On 20 April 2023, Price made 101 from 98 balls for Gloucestershire against Worcestershire and later took 4 for 58, including a hat-trick. Sussex's official signing record identifies him as the first player in first-class history to score a century and take a hat-trick on the same day. The achievement depends on both parts occurring within one day of the same match, not merely somewhere in the same season.

The hundred was his maiden first-class century and helped rescue Gloucestershire's first innings. The hat-trick then came through three consecutive wickets within his bowling spell. Neither milestone sits outside the career totals: the 101 contributes to his 1,449 first-class runs, and the hat-trick wickets contribute to the 105-wicket aggregate. Their value comes from the rare combination and match timing.

How strong is Tom Price's first-class bowling record?

At the 25 July 2026 cutoff, Price had 105 wickets from 40 first-class matches at an average of 30.78. He had taken four five-wicket innings hauls and one ten-wicket match haul, with 8 for 27 as his best innings return. Those figures establish bowling as his primary discipline even though his batting record is substantial enough for an all-rounder classification.

The 8 for 27 came against Warwickshire in 2022. It means eight wickets in one innings for 27 runs conceded, not eight wickets across the full match. A ten-wicket match requires wickets from both innings combined, so the career table keeps the four five-wicket innings and one ten-wicket match measures separate. Adding them to 105 would count wickets again.

What does Tom Price contribute with the bat?

Price had scored 1,449 first-class runs at 28.41 by the July 2026 cutoff, with one hundred, seven fifties and a high score of 109. That is a meaningful batting record for a player whose stronger discipline is seam bowling. It does not make him a top-order specialist, but it gives Sussex the possibility of extending an innings or chase after the recognized batters have been dismissed.

His white-ball batting samples were smaller: 286 List A runs at 22.00, including one fifty, and 97 T20 runs at 10.77. The format split matters because first-class success cannot simply be assumed in shorter cricket. His List A and T20 bowling records were also less developed—19 and five wickets respectively—so the broad all-rounder label still needs format-specific evidence beneath it.

Why did Tom Price move from Gloucestershire to Sussex?

Sussex announced Price's signing on 21 July 2025, with the three-year contract beginning ahead of the 2026 season. The deal moved him from the only county for which he had played first-class cricket. Sussex Director of Cricket Paul Farbrace described him as a genuine all-round cricketer expected to contribute in all forms, while Price described leaving his home club as a difficult decision.

The contract establishes Sussex as his current county and places the minimum deal window across the 2026, 2027 and 2028 seasons. It does not transfer his Gloucestershire records into a new category or erase that earlier team history. The 8 for 27 and 2023 century-hat-trick remain Gloucestershire achievements even though they now form part of the career record shown on a Sussex player page.

How did Tom Price start his Sussex career?

Price made 43 in his first Sussex innings against Leicestershire on 3 April 2026, hitting seven boundaries. In the second innings he made 73 from 116 balls and added 119 for the seventh wicket with Jack Carson. The two innings gave him 116 runs on county debut and helped Sussex build a fourth-innings target of 481.

Sussex completed a 222-run win on day four. Price's main contribution in that match was with the bat: the first-innings 43 supported a total of 361, and the second-innings partnership restored control after Sussex had slipped to 182 for six. Calling it an excellent all-round debut would overstate his bowling impact; the match reports specifically credit five-wicket hauls to Ollie Robinson and Henry Crocombe.

What happened in Tom Price's Sussex home debut?

Against Warwickshire at Hove on 13 April 2026, Price made an unbeaten 70 in his first home match for Sussex. He and Jack Leaning added 144 for the sixth wicket after coming together at 184 for five with another 144 runs required. Sussex won by five wickets, with Leaning finishing 120 not out and Price accelerating once Warwickshire took the new ball.

This innings was his second fifty in consecutive Sussex Championship matches after the 73 at Leicestershire. Its value came from the chase: Sussex still faced a substantial target and no recognized batter remained after the pair. Price did not merely protect an established centurion; his boundaries against the new ball helped turn a tense final morning into a completed victory.

What is the next test for Tom Price at Sussex?

Price's opening Sussex matches demonstrated immediate lower-order batting value, but the longer test is whether he can reproduce his Gloucestershire bowling impact in Division One. His career record of 105 first-class wickets and four five-wicket hauls establishes the capability; the move creates a new team context in which workload, conditions and competition for places can change his role.

There was also an early availability warning. Price suffered an ankle injury while fielding against Yorkshire in April 2026 and later batted with a runner, although Sussex named him in the following squad. That evidence supports only a dated match situation, not a continuing medical claim. Future assessment should use completed appearances and current team information rather than assuming either permanent fitness or a lasting injury.