# Frank Pinch

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**Frank Pinch** (24 February 1891 – 8 October 1961) was an English [cricketer](/source/Cricket). He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for [Glamorgan](/source/Glamorgan_County_Cricket_Club). He was born in [Bodmin](/source/Bodmin) and died in [Ashford, Kent](/source/Ashford,_Kent).

Pinch began playing club cricket for Barry, and was called up by Glamorgan in 1920, their final season as a Minor County, scoring his maiden century against [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire_County_Cricket_Club). A teacher by profession, he was at that time working as a teacher in Kent, but found enough time to make the trip to Glamorgan to play on several occasions, having made acquaintance with a Glamorgan official.

In 1921, Pinch became the first Glamorgan batsman to hit a century on his debut first-class match,[1] at home against [Worcestershire](/source/Worcestershire_County_Cricket_Club) in Glamorgan's first season of County Cricket – the only debut century for the team for sixty-four years. This was, however, the only century of his career, and the only season in which he would rack up ten first-class appearances.

Pinch continued to bat in the Glamorgan middle-order, scoring well during this first season, but from this point on his first-class averages tailed off, though his club averages remained consistently high. However, in each but his last season, his best scores for the season were in or around the half-century mark, until the last season he played, 1926, in which professional non-cricketing commitments took over more of his time.

## References

1. ["Stat Attack: Callum Taylor hits a century on first-class debut"](https://www.glamorgancricket.com/news/stat-attack-callum-taylor-hits-a-century-on-first-class-debut). *Glamorgan Cricket*. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

## External links

- [Frank Pinch](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4852/4852.html) at Cricket Archive (subscription required)

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