Tom Kohler-Cadmore is a destructive hitter, particularly down the ground, who at a young age had already become a dangerous component of Worcestershire's limited-overs cricket. He hit the fastest hundred of the 2016 season, off 43 balls, against Durham Jets in May, going on to reach 127 from 54 balls, as he made what then represented Worcestershire's highest-ever individual T20 score.

An outstanding schoolboy player, Kohler-Cadmore won a cricket scholarship to Malvern College and amassed 1,409 runs at an average in excess of 100 in his final year. He subsequently won the 2014 Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year.

Brought up through Yorkshire's age-group teams - his name is inherited from his mother's German origins - where he broke run-scoring records previously held by Michael Vaughan, he graduated to the Worcestershire side as a teenager. While progress was initially uncertain - he failed to reached 20 in his first eight first-class innings - he gradually began to find his feet. A century in a non-first-class game against Cambridge MCCU was followed by successive half-centuries against Leicestershire and Glamorgan before an innings of 99 against Leicestershire in July 2014 was ended when Dan Redfern bowled him.

The maiden first-class century finally came in the final game of the 2015 season, against Middlesex at New Road as he added 229 with Tom Fell. He was also his county's second-highest run-scorer in T20 cricket in the season. Two more first-class hundreds followed in 2016, including a career-best 169 against Gloucestershire, although he was overshadowed by an extraordinary tail-end hundred by Jack Shantry.
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