Francis Prentice, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Prentice

cricketer

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1912

Place of Birth: Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1978

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.
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.
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.