Match Preview: Surrey v Hampshire, Vitality CC
A 13-player Hampshire squad will travel to The Kia Oval to take on Surrey in the Vitality County Championship
Michael John Lumb, was born in Johannesburg South Africa, in 1980.
He was a left-handed batsman; the son of Richard who opened for Yorkshire 1970-1984. He played for the South Africans under-19 sides and when he came to England to pursue a career in county cricket, he too joined Yorkshire, playing there from 2000-2006 before joining Hampshire, where he played from 2007-2011, scoring 2,997 first-class runs at 36.54 with four centuries. He moved then to Nottinghamshire, retiring through injury in 2017.
For Hampshire, his best first-class season was 2009 when he passed 1,000 runs at 43.75 and scored 219 v Nottinghamshire, but for the next two seasons he struggled with injury before departing. He was a very effective batsman in the shorter forms, scoring 1,958 limited-overs runs at 39.16 with two centuries and 19 half-centuries, and in T20 he passed 1,000 runs at 24.46 with a best of 124* and six half-centuries.
He also played T20 cricket for various sides around the world, and in three ODIs for England, including a century v West Indies, and 27 IT20s, appearing in the England side that won the Caribbean World Cup in 2010.
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