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Francis Prentice
Francis Thomas Prentice, also known as Frank Prentice, (22 April 1912 – 10 July 1978) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1934 and 1951.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Player Profile: Francis Prentice )〕 He was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire and died at Leeds, also in Yorkshire.
Prentice was a right-handed batsman often used as an opener and a right-arm off-break bowler, used irregularly and often rather expensively. He played a few matches for Yorkshire's second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship in 1931.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Minor Counties Championship Matches Played by Francis Prentice )〕 But with competition for places in Yorkshire's first eleven very stiff, he left to join Leicestershire, where he was not qualified for County Championship games until 1935. From then on until the end of the 1949 season he was a regular in the Leicestershire first team.
==Pre-war cricket==
Not yet qualified, Prentice had made his first-class debut in Leicestershire's match against Oxford University in 1934, batting at No 7 in the first innings, when he made 39, but opening in the second innings. He was picked for the first game of the 1935 season and kept his place through what ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' called "the most successful season in the history of the club". Prentice himself had a modest record, with 713 runs at an average of 16.20, and only two scores of more than 50.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Francis Prentice )〕 But, ''Wisden'' noted, "possessed of a solid defence, (he) often played an invaluable innings in a crisis".〔 His record improved to 989 runs and an average of 24.12 in 1936, but ''Wisden'' was less impressed: "Prentice showed extremely sound defence, but did not appear to have many strokes at his command," it wrote, noting also that, with the likely unavailability of Alan Shipman in 1937, "efforts were made to convert Prentice into an opening batsman". Prentice was awarded his county cap in 1936.
The move to open the innings was an immediate success: in 1937, Prentice scored 1506 runs at an average of 32.73 and of his opening partnership with Les Berry ''Wisden'' wrote that "with the exception perhaps of Yorkshire and Sussex no other county possessed such consistent opening batsmen". It added: "Prentice confirmed all the high opinions formed of him. Using more strokes than previously, he also retained his solid defence and proved an extremely difficult batsman to dislodge."〔 In the first match of the season, Prentice made his first first-class century, an innings of 163 against Hampshire. He followed that with 127 in the second game, against Northamptonshire, and in both games he shared a century opening partnership with Berry. He made four centuries in the season.〔 In addition, because of a shortage of spin bowlers, he bowled more than 400 overs of off-spin, and though his 24 wickets cost more than 55 runs apiece, against Lancashire he took five wickets for 82 runs, his first five-wicket return, though the Lancastrians totalled 469 in their only innings of the match. He was less prolific in both 1938 and 1939, failing to score 1000 runs in either season and missing a few matches through injury in each of them.〔
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