 Compton in 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Benjamin Garnet Compton | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 March 1994 Durban, Natal Province, South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Nottinghamshire (squad no. 7) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Norfolk | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021/22—2022/23 | Mountaineers | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023/24–2024/25 | KwaZulu-Natal Inland | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 16 September 2019 Notts v Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||
| LA debut | 10 August 2021 Notts v Northants | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,28 Sept 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Benjamin Garnet Compton (born 29 March 1994) is an English cricketer. [1] [2] He is the only son of the cricketer Patrick Compton and a grandson of the cricketer-footballer Denis Compton. [3] He made his first-class debut on 16 September 2019,for Nottinghamshire in the 2019 County Championship. [4] He made his List A debut on 10 August 2021,for Nottinghamshire in the 2021 Royal London One-Day Cup. [5]
Compton was released by Nottinghamshire at the end of the 2021 season. [6] In the off-season he joined Kent on a two-year contract. [7] During the 2021/22 English off-season he played for Mountaineers in Zimbabwean cricket. [8] On 17 November 2021,in the 2021–22 Pro50 Championship match against the Rhinos,Compton scored his first century in List A cricket with 102 runs. [9] In February 2022,in the 2021–22 Logan Cup,Compton also scored his maiden century in first-class cricket. [10] Compton finished as the leading run-scorer in the 2021–22 Pro50 Championship,with 361 runs in eight matches, [11] and was named the Batter of the Tournament. [12]
Compton made his Kent debut in the first match of the 2022 season,where he scored a century,the third of his first-class career. [13] [14] A week later,in Kent's second match of the season,Compton scored his second and third centuries for the team, [15] carrying his bat in the first innings and being the last batter dismissed in the second. [16] He continued to score heavily and came close to achieving 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May,something only achieved nine times previously,the last in 1998. He had made 878 first-class runs in the County Championship in April and May before scoring 158 runs (in two innings combined) in the last match before the end of May,a red-ball two-innings match for a "First Class Counties XI" against the touring New Zealanders in a match that was not given first-class status as the teams used more than eleven players at different stages. [17] [18] He reached the 1,000 run milestone in June,having scored four centuries and five half-centuries during the season to that point. [19]
At the end of the season,Compton was voted Kent's Men's Player of the Year. [20] [21] During the 2022—23 English winter,he returned to Zimbabwe,playing again for Mountaineers. He passed his previous highest first-class score of 140 in a match against Eagles in December,making 154 runs,before scoring his maiden double-century later in the month. His score of 217 came against Southern Rocks in an opening partnership of 228 runs with Joylord Gumbie. [22] [23] He signed a new Kent contract later the same month,keeping at the club until the end of 2024. [21] In Kent's opening match of the 2023 season,Compton scored another century,matching his performance in scoring a century in the opening match of the previous season with an unbeaten 114 runs. [24]
Compton signed a new one-year contract with Kent in October 2024 [25] and a further three-year deal with the club in June 2025. [26]
He scored a first-class career-best of 221 for Kent against Leicestershire at the St Lawrence Ground on 1 August 2025. [27]