James Benning (cricketer)
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Graham Edward Benning | |||
| Born | 4 May 1983 Mill Hill, London, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium pace | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2009 – | Leicestershire | |||
| 2003 – 2009 | Surrey (squad no. 3) | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | LA | T20 | |
| Matches | 36 | 77 | 50 | |
| Runs scored | 1642 | 2465 | 1032 | |
| Batting average | 31.57 | 33.76 | 22.43 | |
| 100s/50s | 4/7 | 3/15 | –/7 | |
| Top score | 128 | 189* | 88 | |
| Balls bowled | 1287 | 968 | 42 | |
| Wickets | 14 | 31 | 2 | |
| Bowling average | 70.71 | 35.06 | 28.50 | |
| 5 wickets in innings | – | – | – | |
| 10 wickets in match | – | – | – | |
| Best bowling | 3/57 | 4/43 | 1/7 | |
| Catches/stumpings | 14/– | 26/– | 15/– | |
| Source: Cricinfo, 27 July 2009 | ||||
James Benning (born 4 May 1983 in Mill Hill, London) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Leicestershire County Cricket Club having previously represented Surrey. He is a right-hand bat and right-arm medium pace bowler. Benning played for the minor county team, Buckinghamshire, in 2001, in one Under-19 "Test" for England in 2002 and joined Surrey in 2003.
Benning won the NBC Denis Compton Award for young players in 2003.
James, who used to attend Caterham School, scored a one-day world record 496-4 (with Surrey) in 2007. Alongside Ali Brown, also a former Caterham School pupil, the pair put on 296 opening for Surrey, with Benning going on to make 152.
He finished the 2005/06 domestic one day campaign with the highest average of any county player.
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