Hamish Bennett

Hamish Bennett
Personal information
Full name Hamish Kyle Bennett
Born (1987-02-22) 22 February 1987
Timaru, New Zealand
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Batting Left-handed
Bowling Right-arm medium-fast
Role bowler
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 247) 4 November 2010 v India
ODI debut (cap 163) 14 October 2010 v Bangladesh
Last ODI 28 January 2014 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2005–present Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 1 14 60 82
Runs scored 4 10 314 86
Batting average 4.00 5.00 9.51 7.16
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 4 4* 30* 20*
Balls bowled 90 602 9,994 3,410
Wickets 0 23 183 108
Bowling average – 23.60 32.47 27.55
5 wickets in innings 0 0 3 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 0/47 4/16 7/50 6/45
Catches/stumpings 0/– 2/– 14/– 11/–
Source: Cricinfo, 11 May 2017

Hamish Kyle Bennett (born 22 February 1987 in Timaru) is a New Zealand international cricketer who has played Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket. He also plays for Canterbury in the New Zealand domestic competitions.

Earlier in his career he represented New Zealand in the 2006 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler who bats left handed in the lower order.[1]

Domestic career

In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with Wellington for the 2018–19 season.[2]

International career

He made his first ODI appearance against Bangladesh in October 2010, where he was New Zealand's best performing bowler, taking three wickets in a match Bangladesh went on to win.[3] The following month he made his Test debut in a drawn match against India. After bowling fifteen wicketless overs in the first innings,[4] he was unable to bowl in the second innings because of an injury.[5]

Bennett was included in to the New Zealand squad for 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup held in Indian subcontinent. He took 4 wickets against Kenya in Chennai where he adjudged man of the match award. But then he lack the pace and wicket taking ability and economy went high in each match he played in the World Cup. New Zealand lost another World Cup at the semi-final stage, where this time to Sri Lanka.

Bennett returned to the ODI team on 25 January 2014 to play the third one-day match between New Zealand and India, after being sidelined for two years due to a serious back injury.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Players / New Zealand / Hamish Bennett". Cricinfo.
  2. ↑ "Central Districts drop Jesse Ryder from contracts list". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series - 4th ODI, 2010/11 season". Cricinfo.
  4. ↑ "New Zealand in India Test Series - 1st Test, 2010/11 season". Cricinfo.
  5. ↑ "Martin five sparks stunning turnaround". Cricinfo.
  6. ↑ "Wired up Hamish Bennett glad to be back". Stuff.co.nz.


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