death_date columns catches/stumpings family year hidedeliveries birth_date country death_place club batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs s/s matches article_title
1 november 1938 1 4 / -- fa -rrb- tarrant -lrb- nephew -rrb- lbn tarrant -lrb- grandnephew 1890 -- 1898 2015 true 22 september 1866 australia fitzroy north , victoria , australia victoria right-handed ambrose tarrant william ambrose tarrant fitzroy , colony of victoria fc batsman http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/16/16761/16761.html cricketarchive 1866 9 22 yes 233 0/1 9 ambrose tarrant

ambrose tarrant

william ambrose tarrant -lrb- 22 september 1866 -- 1 november 1938 -rrb- was an australian cricketer who played at level for victoria during the 1890s .
a right-handed batsman born in fitzroy , tarrant made his debut for victoria in january 1890 , playing a standalone fixture against tasmania at the tca ground in hobart .
his career continued until the 1897 -- 98 season , with little success .
in total , tarrant played nine first-class matches , scoring 233 runs at an average of 17.92 .
only one of those matches came in the sheffield shield , which had been instituted for the 1892 -- 93 season , and tarrant 's final three matches came against tasmania and western australia , neither of which played shield matches at the time owing to their relative weakness .
his highest first-class score -lrb- and only half-century -rrb- had come in sydney in january 1892 , an innings of 82 runs against new south wales that helped victoria win by an innings and 15 runs .
outside of inter-colonial matches , tarrant had a long and successful career for the south melbourne and fitzroy cricket clubs in vca pennant matches .
he had participated in the inaugural 1889 -- 90 premiership season , which succeeded an earlier challenge cup , and played regularly up until the 1909 -- 10 season , by which time he was 43 .
his final career tally of 142 matches includes a one-off appearance for fitzroy against university during the 1921 -- 22 season , at the age of 55 .
tarrant 's nephew , frank tarrant , was a noted all-rounder who played over 300 first-class matches for australian , english , and indian teams .
frank tarrant 's son , louis tarrant , played a single first-class match and also umpired at first-class level .
