Richard Leonard Johnson (born 29 December 1974) is a former international English cricketer and the current coach of Middlesex County Cricket Club. Domestic career A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium pace swing bowler, Johnson made his first-class debut as a teenager in the 1992 County Championship as an opening bowler for Middlesex. Johnson made headlines in 1994 when he took all ten Derbyshire wickets in their second-innings, returning figures of 10/45. These remain the best innings figures taken in the English County Championship since 1945. He joined Somerset in 2001, helping the county to win the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy in that season. He rejoined Middlesex in 2007. In a short international career, he played three Tests and ten One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England in 2003, his only year of international cricket. He announced his retirement from first-class cricket in October 2007, aged 32 before launching a coaching career. Following his retirement, he gained experience as a bowling coach for both Middlesex and Surrey before his appointment by Middlesex as head coach in January 2022 following the departure of Stuart Law. International career International recognition Johnson's first taste of international cricket came during the 1992–93 Coca-Cola International Youth Cricket Challenge in South Africa, where he represented England Under-18s, alongside fellow future Test cricketers Marcus Trescothick and Vikram Solanki. The following winter, he toured Sri Lanka with England Under-19s, playing one youth Test and three youth One Day Internationals. He claimed three wickets in each innings of his Test appearance, including that of Mahela Jayawardene, and followed this up with four wickets in the ODI series, finishing the tournament with a bowling average of 14.16 from his Test and 16.50 from the ODI series. After his ten-wicket haul against Derbyshire, Johnson was named as part of the England A squad to tour India and Bangladesh in the winter of 1994–95. He was called into the England tour of India in 2001-2 as a late replacement for county colleague Andy Caddick. He did not play in any of the international matches on the tour, although he appeared in one tour match, taking four wickets. Johnson's Test career began in impressive fashion, as he claimed six wickets in the first-innings of his debut against Zimbabwe in June 2003. Although he remained wicket-less in the second-innings, Johnson received the man of the match award. His figures were the sixth best by an Englishman