Hall was born at Darlington, County Durham and was educated at Uppingham School where he captained the first XI in 1948.
He joined Derbyshire in the 1949 season playing two games for the second XI and made his first-class debut against Nottinghamshire in August 1949 when he neither scored nor took a wicket.
However he returned for the first half of the 1950 season and against Surrey batting 9th man made 52, the highest score in a total of 147.
He played one game for Somerset in 1954 and then appeared for the Royal Air Force cricket team and Combined Services.
[1] Hall was a member of the crew of Timothy Colman's Crossbow, which broke the world speed sailing record in 1972.