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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.

Arnold Warren

Personal information
Full name	Arnold Warren[1]
Born	(1875-04-02)2 April 1875 Codnor, Derbyshire, England
Died	3 September 1951(1951-09-03) (aged 76) Codnor, England
Batting	Right-handed batsman
Bowling	Right-arm fast
International information
National side	England
Only Test (cap 143)	3 July 1905 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1897–1920	Derbyshire
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: , 26 April 2010

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

Warren while with Brentford in 1902
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

External links

• Media related to Arnold Warren at Wikimedia Commons
• Cricinfo page on Arnold Warren
• CricketArchive page on Arnold Warren

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