Arnold Warren

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

Arnold Warren
Personal information
Full name	Arnold Warren
Born	2 April 1875; Codnor, Derbyshire, England
Died	3 September 1951 (aged 76); Codnor, England
Batting	Right-handed batsman
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Domestic team information
1897–1920	Derbyshire
First-class debut	10 May 1897 Derbyshire v Lancashire
Last First-class	24 July 1920 Derbyshire v Northamptonshire
Career statistics
	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

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

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

External links

[Joyce-1] Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 302. ISBN 190589161X.

[:1-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Arnold Warren". www.codnor.info. Retrieved 12 February 2016.

[espncricinfo-3] "3rd Test: England v Australia at Leeds, Jul 3-5, 1905". espncricinfo. Retrieved 18 December 2011.

[:0-4] Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. pp. 37–38. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.

[White-5] White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 357. ISBN 0951526200.

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