Mark Benson

Benson was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England. He played first-class cricket for Kent from 1980 to 1995. He was a left-hand opening batsman, with a career batting average of 40.23. He played for England in one Test match and one one-day international in 1986.

After retiring from playing he became an umpire. He umpired his first first-class match in 1997, and made his international debut in a one-day international between England and the West Indies at Trent Bridge on 27 June 2004. His Test umpiring debut followed in October 2004 when he officiated in the Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand at Dhaka. In January 2006 he officiated seven of the fifteen matches in the VB Series between Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka in Australia. In April 2006, having stood in eight Tests and twenty-four one-day internationals, Benson was rewarded for his outstanding performance when he became one of three umpires promoted from the Emirates International panel to the Emirates ICC Elite umpire panel, the others being Billy Doctrove and Asad Rauf.

References

• [Player Profile: ] from Cricinfo
• [Mark Benson] from CricketArchive
• [Benson, Doctrove and Rauf elevated to Elite Panel] from Cricinfo

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