Jeremy Thomas Andrew Benton (born 14 June 1995) is a New Zealand former

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er.Jeremy Benton
CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 May 2022. He made his

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debut for

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on 4 December 2016 in the

2016–17 Super Smash The 2016–17 McDonald's Super Smash (named after the competition's sponsor McDonald's) was the twelfth season of the Men's Super Smash Twenty20 cricket tournament in New Zealand. The competition was run from 4 December 2016 to 7 January 2017. ...

. Prior to his debut, he was part of New Zealand's squad for the

2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup The 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was a one-day cricket competition for sixteen international U-19 cricketing teams which was played in the United Arab Emirates. This was the tenth edition of the tournament. Sixteen nations competed: the ten ...

. He made his

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debut for Canterbury in the

2017–18 Ford Trophy The 2017–18 Ford Trophy was the 47th season of the official List A cricket tournament in New Zealand, and the seventh in a sponsorship deal between New Zealand Cricket and Ford Motor Company. The competition ran from 3 December 2017 to 24 Fe ...

on 3 December 2017. He played cricket in Ireland in 2018 and 2019, captaining the

Munster Reds Munster Reds is an Irish inter-provincial cricket team based in Cork, in the province of Munster. In April 2017, Cricket Ireland approved the participation of the team in the Interprovincial Twenty20 Cup, the highest level of T20 domestic crick ...

team.

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* 1995 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Canterbury cricketers Munster Reds cricketers Sportspeople from Canterbury New Zealand sportsmen Cricketers from Kent {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1990s-stub