Frank Warne

Frank Belmont Warne (3 October 1906 – 29 May 1994) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for teams on four continents during a 95-game career that stretched from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s.

Warne made his first-class debut for Victoria against Tasmania at the MCG in January 1927. He scored 20 in his only innings, and picked up five wickets in the match as Victoria won the game by an innings. Although he played several minor games for Victoria Colts over the next couple of seasons — he once took 12 wickets against South Australia Colts — his only other first-class appearance for Victoria came against Tasmania (again) in February 1929. Warne opened the batting in the first innings, but made only 1; he was more successful with 33 not out down the order in the second innings. He never played in the Sheffield Shield.

It was five years before Warne would taste first-class cricket again, and when the time came it was in England, for Worcestershire, taking 3-33 in the first innings against Oxford University. Late in the season, he played three County Championship games, hitting 62 against Yorkshire. That winter, he went to India and after one appearance for the Indian University Occasionals against a Viceroy's XI, he played for Retrievers in the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament. After a win by a concession in the semi-final (opponents Hyderabad Cricket Association XI were heading for an innings defeat) Retrievers won the final against Freelooters by three wickets, although Warne's contribution was minimal (one wicket, one catch and 2 in his only innings). He then played for the Europeans against the Hindus in the Bombay Quadrangular, taking four first-innings wickets and scoring 49 and 1, though the Europeans were defeated by an innings.