Richard Johnson (cricketer, born 1974)

Richard Johnson

Personal information

Full name

Richard Leonard Johnson

Born

29 December 1974 (age 42)
Chertsey, Surrey, England

Nickname

Jono, Lenny, The Greek

Height

6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm fast-medium

Role

Bowler

International information

National side

England

Test debut (cap 615)

5 June 2003 v Zimbabwe

Last Test

2 December 2003 v Sri Lanka

ODI debut (cap 177)

26 June 2003 v Zimbabwe

Last ODI

18 November 2003 v Sri Lanka

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2007

Middlesex

2001–2006

Somerset

1991–2000

Middlesex

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	3	10	166	194
Runs scored	59	16	3545	1108
Batting average	14.75	5.33	17.81	11.42
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	2/8	0/1
Top score	26	10	118	53
Balls bowled	547	402	27844	8607
Wickets	16	11	528	213
Bowling average	17.18	21.72	28.58	32.84
5 wickets in innings	2	0	20	1
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	3	n/a
Best bowling	6/33	3/22	10/45	5/50
Catches/stumpings	0/–	0/–	63/–	23/–

Source: [1], 21 March 2010

Richard Leonard Johnson (born 29 December 1974) is a former international English cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium pace swing bowler, Johnson made his first-class debut as a teenager in the 1992 County Championship as an opening bowler for Middlesex. He made headlines in 1994 when he took all ten Derbyshire wickets in their second-innings, returning figures of 10/45. He moved to Somerset in 2001, and made his Test debut two years later. He played three Tests and ten One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England in 2003, his only year of international cricket. He announced his retirement from first-class cricket in October 2007, aged 32.

Johnson's first taste of international cricket came during the 1992–93 Coca-Cola International Youth Cricket Challenge in South Africa, where he represented England Under-18s, alongside fellow future Test cricketers Marcus Trescothick and Vikram Solanki. The following winter, he toured Sri Lanka with England Under-19s, playing one youth Test and three youth One Day Internationals. He claimed three wickets in each innings of his Test appearance, including that of Mahela Jayawardene, and followed this up with four wickets in the ODI series, finishing the tournament with a bowling average of 14.16 from his Test and 16.50 from the ODI series.

After his ten-wicket haul against Derbyshire, Johnson was named as part of the England A squad to tour India and Bangladesh in the winter of 1994–95.

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