Career
He was mainly associated with Kent County Cricket Club, and made 170 known appearances in first-class matches. Bennett was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm slow roundarm bowler. He played for several of the representative travelling teams including the United All-England Eleven (1860–1862).
All-England Eleven (1864) and the United South of England Eleven (1872).
He represented the Players in 1865 and 1866. He also was the first player to be ever given out handled the ball.
In a match for Kent against Sussex at County Cricket Ground, Hove in August 1872, he removed a ball from his clothing before he had scored a run. Unfortunately for him, the introduction of Law 33 (b) in 1899, which declared such a ball to be dead, did not come soon enough.