Keith Tomlins

{{short description|English cricketer (born 1957)}}

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Keith Patrick Tomlins (born 23 October 1957 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey) is an English former cricketer.

Educated at St Benedict's School and Durham University, Tomlins made his debut for Middlesex as a right-handed middle order batsman in 1977 and earned his highest score of 146 against Oxford University in 1982.{{cite book |editor1-last=Frindall |editor1-first=Bill |editor1-link=Bill Frindall |title=Playfair Cricket Annual 1988 |date=1988 |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |isbn=0356155390 |page=84}} He moved to Gloucestershire in 1986, and retired the following year having scored nearly 4,000 runs, including five hundreds.{{cite web |title=England: New ECB Coaching Role for Tomlins (6 November 1998) |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/england-new-ecb-coaching-role-for-tomlins-6-november-1998-76515 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=6 September 2024 |language=en |date=6 November 1998}} After retraining as a landscape architect he played two seasons of minor county cricket for Wiltshire.

Tomlins was appointed to a coaching role with the ECB in 1998.