 Three of Bennett's games were for Worcestershire in 1925, while the other came for the Civil Service (playing their only first-class match) in 1927.In the latter game against the touring New Zealanders, themselves making their first tour of England, he made 73 and 60 (by some distance the highest scores of his career).He brought off only one catch in first-class cricket, to dismiss Bob Wyatt in the derby against Warwickshire.