 Tarrant, c. 1905 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Francis Alfred Tarrant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 December 1880 Fitzroy, Colony of Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 January 1951 (aged 70) Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm slow-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | WA Tarrant (uncle) LBN Tarrant (son) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1899–1925 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1903–1914 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1904–1914 | Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1915–1936 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1927–1933 | Patiala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tests umpired | 2 (1933–1934) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC umpired | 8 (1932–1934) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 11 January 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Francis Alfred Tarrant (11 December 1880 – 29 January 1951) was an Australian cricketer whose first-class career spanned from 1899 to 1936, and included 329 matches.
From Melbourne, Tarrant began his career with Victoria in Australia's Sheffield Shield, but found fame playing in England, with a long career as an all-rounder for Middlesex in the County Championship. After the First World War, he was mostly active in India, appearing for the Europeans in the Bombay Quadrangular tournament. Tarrant played his final first-class match at the age of 56, during the 1936–37 season. He had also umpired in two England–India Test matches (and several first-class games) several seasons earlier. Considered one of the best players never to play at Test level, Tarrant scored almost 18,000 runs and over 1,500 wickets during his long career, and completed "the double" of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season on eight separate occasions.