Tom Poynton      

A young wicketkeeper with considerable talent, Thomas Poynton made his first-team debut for Derbyshire during the 2007 Twenty20 group stages when James Pipe was injured. Although his first match lasted just 7.3 overs and in his next outing, against Yorkshire, he scored just three, the county still handed him a Championship debut in July against Middlesex. He made a pair batting at No. 8, and since then first team appearances have been hard to come by.

A two-year deal at the end of 2007 capped a memorable season which saw him make eight first team appearances in all competitions, impressing with his tidy work behind the stumps enough to see him labelled as a real star of the future. He was part of England's Elite Player programme in 2008, and travelled to South Africa with England Under-19 early the following year, but failed to break through decisively into Derbyshire's first XI. He remains on the county's books, but Luke Sutton's return from Lancashire means it could be some time before Poynton finds himself as Derbyshire's first-choice wicketkeeper.

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