All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

93 Frank Tarrant Maharaja of Cooch-Behar’s XI v Lord Willingdon’s XI, 1918/19 Deccan Gymkhana Ground, Poona on 12, 13 August 1918 (2-day match) Toss won by Lord Willingdon’s XI Match drawn Lord Willingdon’s XI 219 (FA Tarrant 10-90) and 132-4 dec; Maharaja of Cooch-Behar’s XI 265 (FA Tarrant 182 not out, SM Joshi 6-56) and 22-4 Lord Willingdon’s XI first innings KO Goldie c Gaekwad b Tarrant 64 TW Kirkwood lbw b Tarrant 13 P Vithal lbw b Tarrant 9 DK Kapadia b Tarrant 43 SA Mirza lbw b Tarrant 0 M Yusuf Baig not out 34 *GA Laverton c Dass b Tarrant 15 +PJ Chinoy b Tarrant 4 CM Rigby c Banerjee b Tarrant 0 SM Joshi b Tarrant 14 PH Daruwala b Tarrant 0 Extras 23 Total (all out, 72.4 overs) 219 Fall of wickets 1-48, 2-72, 3-129, 4-153, 5-153, 6-181, 7-192, 8-192, 9-217, 10-219 Maharaja of Cooch-Behar’s XI bowling: FA Tarrant 35.4-4-90-10, HW Lee 22-4-72-0, S Ghose 8-3-17-0, B Mukherjee 2-0-11-0, KHS Narayan 5-2-6-0 Maharaja of Cooch-Behar’s XI: HW Lee, B Mukherjee, M Dass, P Banerjee (wk), FA Tarrant, D Gaekwad, P Ghosh, KHS Narayan, S Bose, S Aikut, S Ghose One of the best cricketers never to play Test cricket, as an Australian playing most of his cricket in England the restrictive qualification rules of the time prevented Frank Tarrant playing at that level. If he had he would probably have been successful as both batsman and bowler. His first-class career lasted almost 38 years (only C.K. Nayudu, W.G. Grace, Lord Harris and A.W. Nourse played longer) and when he finally retired he had scored nearly 18,000 runs at an average of 36.41 and taken over 1,500 wickets at 17.49. An Australian who starred in England, he was the first man to take all-ten in India! He made himself into a very good batsman, at first a bit cautious but in later years hard hitting and aggressive. As a left-arm spinner he could vary his pace from slow to medium and at his best was surpassed at the time (probably only just) by Colin Blythe and Wilfred Rhodes. He was a true allrounder, his performances fit to rank with those of Giffen, Grace and other greats and when he had played his last match for Middlesex in 1914, only Pelham Warner had scored more runs for the county and only J.T.Hearne taken more wickets. Tarrant was born in Melbourne in 1880. Having played three games for