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James Benning (cricketer)

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Height
  
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

2003 – 2009
  
Surrey (squad no. 3)

Batting style
  
Right-handed

Name
  
James Benning


Role
  
Cricket Bowler

2009 – 2010
  
Leicestershire

Education
  
Caterham School

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Full name
  
James Graham Edward Benning

Born
  
4 May 1983 (age 40) (
1983-05-04
)
Mill Hill, London, England

Bowling style
  
Right-arm medium pace

James Benning (born 4 May 1983 in Mill Hill, London) is an English cricketer who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and 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, shared in a one-day world record 496-4 (with Surrey) in 2007. He and Ali Brown, also a former Caterham School pupil, 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. After leaving Surrey he joined Leicestershire, but was released after the 2010 season.

References

James Benning (cricketer) Wikipedia