Abergavenny Cricket Club is delighted with the announcement that home-grown talent Tom Norton has been added to the Glamorgan County Cricket Club first team squad on a two-year rookie deal, his first professional contract.
Tom recalls his cricketing upbringing thus: ‘I started playing at the Abergavenny club when I was six-year-old, being coached and playing in its youth structure. I got selected for the Wales Under-11 squad when I was nine and have been part of the Glamorgan Pathway and Academy system since the age of 11. I made my Abergavenny 1st XI debut at the age of 14 and my first appearance for Glamorgan 2nd XI debut the following year.
Glamorgan second XI head coach Mark O’Leary describes Tom as ‘a genuine all-rounder, a great fielder, and a big personality in the changing room. He’s a very exciting talent who thrived on that first XI experience last summer. It was a big step for him, and he grabbed it with both hands, and I think he has got a really big future ahead of him’.
Norton was part of Glamorgan’s Metro Bank One-Day Cup squads in both 2024 and 2025 and made his first XI debut against Leicestershire at Sophia Gardens in August last year, producing an impressive all-round performance with the ball and in the field. His senior debut followed an outstanding season with Glamorgan’s second XI, alongside a title-winning summer with the club’s Under-18s (of which he was captain).
On signing his first professional deal, Tom said: ‘It’s a privilege to sign for Glamorgan, being a Welsh boy from Abergavenny. It’s a great opportunity for me for the next two years with this rookie deal. My goal is to try and push into the first team to show my capabilities and improve as a player and a person’.
