Background
He came from cricketing stock as the elder son of the cricketer Richard Hutton and his grandfathers Sir Leonard Hutton and Ben Brocklehurst also played first-class cricket.
He came from cricketing stock as the elder son of the cricketer Richard Hutton and his grandfathers Sir Leonard Hutton and Ben Brocklehurst also played first-class cricket.
Ben Hutton was educated at Radley and Durham University for whom he opened the innings with the former England captain Andrew Strauss.
He represented Middlesex as a left-handed opening batsman, an enthusiastic fielder and occasional right-arm fast-medium bowler. He made his first-class debut in 1999 and was awarded his county cap in 2003. He captained the County between 2005 and 2006.
In 108 first-class matches for the county, he scored 5,712 runs (average 3360) with a highest score of 152 with 18 hundreds and 18 fifties and taking 136 catches.
He announced his retirement from first-class cricket in October 2007 at the early age of 30.
He has commenced a new career in the City of London and also completed the term of Don Bennett as a member of the Middlesex County Cricket Club Executive Board (2011–2012).