Arnold Warren
Birth date2 April 1875
Birth placeCodnor, Derbyshire, England
Death date3 September 1951 (aged 76)
Death placeCodnor, Derbyshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast
Internationaltrue
Onetesttrue
CountryEngland
Testdebutdate3 July
Testdebutyear1905
TestdebutagainstAustralia
Testcap143
Club 1Derbyshire
Year 11897–1920
Columns2
Column 1Test
Matches 11
Runs 17
Bat avg 17.00
100s/50s 10/0
Top score 17
Deliveries 1236
Wickets 16
Bowl avg 118.83
Fivefor 11
Tenfor 10
Best bowling 15/57
Catches/stumpings 11/–
Column 2First-class
Matches 2255
Runs 25,507
Bat avg 213.73
100s/50s 21/11
Top score 2123
Deliveries 242,942
Wickets 2939
Bowl avg 224.55
Fivefor 272
Tenfor 215
Best bowling 28/69
Catches/stumpings 2195/–
Date26 April
Year2010
Sourcehttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/281/281.html CricketArchive

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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[2] Although he dismissed the cream of Australia's batting, taking the prized wicket of Victor Trumper in both innings, he was not selected again.[1]

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.[1] This remains a world record in all first-class cricket.[1]

Football career

Arnold Warren
PositionOutside right
Clubs 1Heanor Town
Clubs 2Ripley Athletic
Years 31899
Clubs 3Glossop
Caps 30
Goals 30
Clubs 5Ripley Athletic
Years 61901
Clubs 6Derby County
Caps 68
Goals 62
Years 71902–1903
Clubs 7Brentford
Caps 715
Goals 72
Clubs 8Ripley Athletic

Warren played as an outside right in the Football League for Derby County and in the Southern League for Brentford in the early 1900s.[3][4][5] He also played non-league football for Heanor Town and Ripley Athletic.[3] 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.[1] He suffered upper body wounds from a shell blast in France in 1917 and was discharged in February 1919, three months after the armistice.[1] Warren reached the rank of lance bombardier.[1]

Personal life

Warren was born in Codnor, Derbyshire, the son of John Warren, a builder, and his wife Mary.[1] Warren died in his hometown at the age of 76.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Arnold Warren". www.codnor.info. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ^ "3rd Test: England v Australia at Leeds, Jul 3–5, 1905". espncricinfo. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  3. ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 302. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  4. ^ 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.