Michael Lamont

Michael Lamont (born 16 January 1967) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played 33 first-class and 40 List A matches, almost all of them for Otago, between the 1990–91 and 1998–99 seasons.

Lamont was born at Invercargill in Southland in 1967. He played age-group cricket for Otago starting in the 1984–85 season made his debut for the provincial Second XI in 1986–87. During the same season he played in three under-19 Test matches and three under-19 One Day Internationals against the Australian under-19 tourists. The following season saw him make his Hawke Cup debut for Southland; Lamont played in several challenge matches for Southland over the following five seasons as Southland retained the trophy. He scored a century during the 1991 defeat of Central Otago as Southland were one of the tournament's dominant teams during the period.

Lamont made his first-class debut in the Otago representative team during the 1990–91 season, playing against Canterbury in a Plunket Shield match at Invercargill. He scored two and eight in his two innings, but retained his place in the team for most of the season, playing in seven of Otago's ten matches during the season. He made his only first-class century during the season, scoring 127 runs against Auckland at Dunedin towards the end of January.

In club cricket Lamont played for Invercargill Metropolitan. He holds the club record innings batting total, an innings of 201 runs. Lamont's cousin, Richard Hoskin, also played for Otago and Southland between 1977–78 and 1992–93 before going on to play for Central Otago in the Hawke Cup until 1995–96.