Benjamin Garnet Compton (born 29 March 1994) is an English cricketer. He is the only son of the cricketer Patrick Compton and a grandson of the cricketer-footballer Denis Compton. A top-order batter, he has represented Nottinghamshire and Kent in English domestic cricket, and Mountaineers in Zimbabwean domestic cricket.
Compton made his first-class debut on 16 September 2019 for Nottinghamshire in the 2019 County Championship. He made his List A debut on 10 August 2021 for Nottinghamshire in the 2021 Royal London One-Day Cup. He was released by Nottinghamshire at the end of the 2021 season and joined Kent on a two-year contract.
During the 2021–22 English off-season, Compton played for Mountaineers in Zimbabwe. On 17 November 2021, in a 2021–22 Pro50 Championship match against the Rhinos, he scored his maiden List A century with 102 runs. In February 2022, in the 2021–22 Logan Cup, he registered his maiden first-class century. He finished as the leading run-scorer in the 2021–22 Pro50 Championship with 361 runs in eight matches and was named the Batter of the Tournament.
Compton made his Kent debut in the first match of the 2022 season, scoring a century, the third of his first-class career. In Kent's next match a week later, he scored two further centuries, carrying his bat in the first innings and being the last batter dismissed in the second. He continued to score heavily and came close to achieving 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May, a feat achieved only nine times previously, most recently in 1998. He had compiled 878 first-class runs in the County Championship across April and May, before scoring 158 runs across two innings in the last match before the end of May, a red-ball two-innings fixture for a "First Class Counties XI" against the touring New Zealanders; the match was not granted first-class status as the teams used more than eleven players at different stages. He reached the 1,000-run milestone in June, having scored four centuries and five half-centuries during the run.
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