Steve Johnson (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Steve Johnson (cricketer)

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1944

Place of Birth: Doncaster, England, United Kingdom

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Steve Johnson (cricketer)

  • John Stephen Johnson (born 7 July 1944) is a former English cricketer.
  • Johnson was a right-handed batsman.
  • He was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire. Johnson made his debut for Shropshire against Cambridgeshire in the 1967 Minor Counties Championship.
  • He played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire from 1967 to 1991, making 178 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 7 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances.
  • He made his List A debut for Shropshire against Essex in the 1974 Gillette Cup.
  • He made 6 further List A appearances for the county, the last of which came against Leicestershire in the 1989 NatWest Trophy.
  • In his 7 List A matches for Shropshire, he scored 55 runs at an average of 7.85, with a high score of 27.Playing for Shropshire allowed him to represent a Minor counties cricket team in one form of another.
  • He made 3 List A appearances in the 1978 Benson & Hedges Cup for Minor Counties East, scoring 30 runs at an average of 10.00, with a high score of 25.
  • The following season he played for Minor Counties North in the 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup, making 4 appearances for the team.
  • He scored 132 runs in these 4 matches, at an average of 33.00, with a high score of 51.
  • This score, his only List A fifty, came against Nottinghamshire.
  • He appeared twice for the Minor Counties cricket team in the 1980 Benson & Hedges Cup, playing against Glamorgan and Gloucestershire.
  • He also played his only first-class match for the Minor Counties against the touring Indians in 1979.
  • Opening the batting, he scored an unbeaten 146 in the Minor Counties first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 24 runs by Karsan Ghavri.Johnson later stood as an umpire in Minor counties and List A cricket.

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