Mark Benson

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Mark Benson England (Eng)

Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm offbreak
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	1	1
Runs scored	51	24
Batting average	25.50	24.00
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	30	24
Balls bowled	-	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	N/A
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	-/-	-/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Mark Richard Benson (born July 6, 1958) is a former England cricketer, and now a cricket umpire.

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.