David Hemp

David Hemp

Personal information
Full name	David Lloyd Hemp
Born	8 November 1970 (1970-11-08) Hamilton, Bermuda
Nickname	Scraps
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right arm medium
Relations	Tim Hemp (brother)
International information
National side	Bermuda
ODI debut (cap 18)	11 November 2006 v Kenya
Last ODI	8 April 2009 v Netherlands
ODI shirt no.	4
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1991–1996	Glamorgan
1997–2001	Warwickshire
1997–1998	Free State
2002–2008	Glamorgan (squad no. 4)
Career statistics
Competition	ODI	T20I	FC	LA
Matches	22	2	271	309
Runs scored	641	20	15,520	6,844
Batting average	33.73	10.00	37.04	27.93
100s/50s	1/4	–/–	30/86	8/34
Top score	102*	20	247*	170*
Balls bowled	114	–	1,134	393
Wickets	1	–	17	13
Bowling average	119.00	–	48.29	27.46
5 wickets in innings	–	–	–	–
10 wickets in match	–	–	–	–
Best bowling	1/25	–	3/23	4/32
Catches/stumpings	7/–	–/–	186/–	118/–
Source: CricketArchive, 25 May 2011

David Lloyd Hemp (born 8 November 1970) is a Bermudian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler, he has domestic cricket for Glamorgan, Free State and Warwickshire. David has a younger brother, Tim, who has previously played for Glamorgan's second eleven. He has also played List A and Twenty20 cricket. He is currently a full time sport coach at Solihull School.

County cricket

Hemp first appeared for Glamorgan in 1991 and was part of the Glamorgan side which won the 1993 Sunday League championship. He followed this up in 1994/95 when he went on a tour with the England A team to India and Bangladesh. The following season he made a career high 157, before joining Warwickshire in 1997. He quickly made it into the top order, and played there consistently until he made a return to Glamorgan in 2002.

Having set a record for Glamorgan with a 252 second wicket partnership, he also played in the innings against Canterbury which won Glamorgan the Norwich Union League.

On 12 September 2006, he assumed the captaincy of Glamorgan with immediate effect after the resignation of Robert Croft. At the end of the 2008 season he was released by the club.

International cricket

In November 2006, Hemp made his debut for Bermuda, the country of his birth, in an ICC Intercontinental Cup game against Kenya. He went onto represent them in all games on their African tour, including seven One Day Internationals against Kenya, Canada and the Netherlands. The undoubted highlight of this tour was the Intercontinental Cup match against the Netherlands, in which Hemp scored an unbeaten 247, his highest first-class innings. At the time this was the highest score in the history of the competition, but the record stood only until the Netherlands' next match when Ryan ten Doeschate scored 259 not out.

His current top ODI score came during the qualifiers for the 2011 World Cup as he hit 102 not out during Bermuda's loss to Kenya. His previous best 76 not out against India at the 2007 World Cup was the first ever fifty scored by a Bermuda player in the World Cup.

References

• Cricket Archive profile
• Cricinfo profile
• Article on Hemp's record breaking innings