| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Benjamin Che Usher | |||
| Born | 3 February 1970 Wycliffe, County Durham, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| Relations | Charles Peat (grandfather) | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1999-2000 | Durham Cricket Board | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | LA | |||
| Matches | 10 | |||
| Runs scored | 76 | |||
| Batting average | 19.00 | |||
| 100s/50s | –/– | |||
| Top score | 32 | |||
| Balls bowled | 380 | |||
| Wickets | 6 | |||
| Bowling average | 51.16 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | – | |||
| 10 wickets in match | – | |||
| Best bowling | 2/30 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 1/– | |||
| Source: Cricinfo, 5 November 2010 | ||||
Benjamin Che Usher (born 3 February 1970) is a former English cricketer. Usher was a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. He was born at Wycliffe, County Durham.
Usher's debut List A match came for a combined British Universities team against Worcestershire in the 1992 Benson and Hedges Cup. He represented the team in 4 List A matches in 1992, the last of which came against Glamorgan.
Usher later made his debut for Northumberland in the 1996 Minor Counties Championship, playing 2 matches against Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire.[1] He also represented the county in a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match against Lincolnshire in 1996.[2]
His next appearance in List A cricket came when he represented the Durham Cricket Board against the Gloucestershire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. From 1999 to 2000, he represented the Board in 6 List A matches, the last of which came against Northamptonshire in the 2000 NatWest Trophy.[3] In his career total of 10 List A matches, he scored 76 runs at a batting average of 19.00, with a high score of 32. In the field he took a single catch. With the ball he took 6 wickets at a bowling average of 51.16, with best figures of 2/30.
His grandfather, Charles Peat, played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and the Free Foresters. He was also later in his life a Conservative Member of Parliament for Darlington.