Steve Johnson

John Stephen Johnson (born 7 July 1944) is a former English cricketer. Johnson was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Johnson made his debut for Shropshire against Cambridgeshire in the 1967 Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire from 1967 to 1991, making 178 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 7 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. He made his List A debut for Shropshire against Essex in the 1974 Gillette Cup. He made 6 further List A appearances for the county, the last of which came against Leicestershire in the 1989 NatWest Trophy. In his 7 List A matches for Shropshire, he scored 55 runs at an average of 7.85, with a high score of 27.

Playing for Shropshire allowed him to represent a Minor counties cricket team in one form of another. He made 3 List A appearances in the 1978 Benson & Hedges Cup for Minor Counties East, He appeared twice for the Minor Counties cricket team in the 1980 Benson & Hedges Cup, playing against Glamorgan and Gloucestershire. Opening the batting, he scored an unbeaten 146 in the Minor Counties first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 24 runs by Karsan Ghavri.

Johnson later stood as an umpire in Minor counties and List A cricket.