Mervyn Kitchen

Mervyn Kitchen
Personal information
Full name
Mervyn John Kitchen
Born (1940-08-01) 1 August 1940 (age 84)
Nailsea, Somerset, England
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1960–1979Somerset
FC debut28 May 1960 Somerset v Middlesex
Last FC23 June 1979 Somerset v Cambridge University
LA debut22 May 1963 Somerset v Glamorgan
Last LA17 June 1979 Somerset v Essex
Umpiring information
Tests umpired20 (1990–2000)
ODIs umpired28 (1983–2001)
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 354 172
Runs scored 15,230 3,388
Batting average 26.25 22.43
100s/50s 17/68 1/12
Top score 189 116
Balls bowled 181 125
Wickets 2 5
Bowling average 54.50 19.40
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/4 2/34
Catches/stumpings 157/– 52/–
Source: CricketArchive, 10 October 2009

Mervyn John Kitchen (born 1 August 1940), is a former English first-class cricketer and international umpire.[1] In his playing days he was a left-handed batsman for Somerset County Cricket Club, making 15,230 runs in his 354 first-class games between 1960 and 1979. He topped the Somerset averages in 1966 and 1968. After retiring as a player, he went on to become a first-class cricket umpire. He umpired in 20 Test matches and 28 One-Day Internationals before retiring from that at the age of 65 in 2005.

  1. ^ "Mervyn Kitchen". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 9 February 2011.