Arnold Warren

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Arnold Warren
Personal information
Full name
Arnold Warren[1]
Born(1875-04-02)2 April 1875
Codnor, Derbyshire, England
Died3 September 1951(1951-09-03) (aged 76)
Codnor, England
BattingRight-handed batsman
BowlingRight-arm fast
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
18971920Derbyshire
First-class debut10 May 1897 Derbyshire v Lancashire
Last First-class24 July 1920 Derbyshire v Northamptonshire
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 1 255
Runs scored 7 5,507
Batting average 7.00 13.73
100s/50s 0/0 1/11
Top score 7 123
Balls bowled 236 42,942
Wickets 6 939
Bowling average 18.83 24.55
5 wickets in innings 1 72
10 wickets in match 0 15
Best bowling 5/57 8/69
Catches/stumpings 1/0 195/0
Source: [1], 26 April 2010

Arnold Warren (2 April 1875 – 3 September 1951) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1897 and 1920 and played for England in 1905. He was the first bowler from Derbyshire to take 100 wickets in a season, a feat he performed three times.

Cricket career

He made his debut for Derbyshire against Lancashire in May 1897.[2] During his time at Derbyshire, he was partnered by Billy Bestwick in a dangerous fast-bowling partnership that never gained much reward because they had very small totals to bowl at.[2] Though rarely judged a better bowler than Bestwick, it was owing to his superiority as a batsman and fieldsman that Warren gained the pair's only England cap against Australia at Headingley in 1905.

He played in the Headingley (Leeds) Ashes Test of 1905.[2] A very tall, right-arm fast bowler who operated off a long, bounding approach, he took 5 for 57 in the first innings of a drawn match.[3] Although he dismissed the cream of Australia's batting, taking the prized wicket of Victor Trumper in both innings, he was not selected again.[2]

In 1910, when playing against Warwickshire at Blackwell Warren scored 123 in less than three hours in a ninth-wicket stand of 283 with John Chapman.[2] This remains a world record in all first-class cricket.[2]

Football career

Arnold Warren
Personal information
Position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Heanor Town
Ripley Athletic
1899 Glossop 0 (0)
Ripley Athletic
1901 Derby County 8 (2)
1902–1903 Brentford 15 (2)
Ripley Athletic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Warren played as an outside right in the Football League for Derby County and in the Southern League for Brentford in the early 1900s.[1][4][5] He also played non-league football for Heanor Town and Ripley Athletic.[1] Warren's Brentford career ended when he was jailed for six months for causing an affray in a local pub.[4]

First World War

Despite being 40 years old and not eligible to serve, Warren lied about his age and enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War.[2] He suffered upper body wounds from a shell blast in France in 1917 and was discharged in February 1919, three months after the armistice.[2] Warren reached the rank of lance bombardier.[2]

Personal life

Warren was born in Codnor, Derbyshire, the son of John Warren, a builder, and his wife Mary.[2] Warren died in his hometown at the age of 76.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 302. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Arnold Warren". www.codnor.info. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  3. ^ "3rd Test: England v Australia at Leeds, Jul 3-5, 1905". espncricinfo. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  4. ^ a b Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. pp. 37–38. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.
  5. ^ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 357. ISBN 0951526200.

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