Ben Harmison

Personal information

Full name

Ben William Harmison

Born

9 January 1986 (age 31)
Ashington, Northumberland, England

Nickname

Harmy

Height

6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)

Batting style

Left-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm medium-fast

Role

Batting all-rounder

Relations

S.J. Harmison (brother)

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2005-11

Durham

2011–15

Kent (squad no. 21)

First-class debut

31 May 2006 Durham v Oxford UCCE

List A debut

7 August 2005 Durham v Bangladesh A

Career statistics

Competition	FC	LA	T20
Matches	85	69	44
Runs scored	3,501	1,177	200
Batting average	28.23	23.54	12.50
100s/50s	7/15	0/3	0/0
Top score	125	67	24
Balls bowled	2,104	1017	438
Wickets	37	30	30
Bowling average	40.86	32.10	21.30
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	n/a
Best bowling	4/27	3/40	3/20
Catches/stumpings	53/–	24/–	15/–

Source: CricketArchive, 16 September 2015

Ben William Harmison (born 9 January 1986) is an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Durham and Kent. The former England Under-19 left-handed batsman scored a century on his first-class debut in 2006 while playing for Durham against Oxford UCCE. He finished the season with 563 runs at an average of 37.53 with 2 hundreds, though both hundreds came in games outside the County Championship. He hit his maiden Championship century, 101 against Warwickshire in 2007.

He came on as a fielding replacement for his elder brother Steve Harmison, during the third test match against the West Indies in 2007.

On 19 December 2011, Harmison signed for Kent after being released by Durham in September. He played for Kent until the end of the 2015 season before leaving the county in February 2016 after four seasons.

He also plays football, as a striker, joining the Ashington side managed by his older brother Steve at the end of the 2016 cricket season, although he had also played for Ashington during his cricket career.He scored on his full debut in September 2015 in the F.A. Vase win over Easington Colliery.

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