Arnold Warren was an English cricket

Cricket

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er who played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1897

1897 English cricket season

The 1897 English cricket season saw Lancashire win the County Championship title for the first time in the official running of the Championship, thanks mainly to only three losses in twenty-six matches. Surrey won more games, and beat Lancashire twice, but one more loss than Lancashire meant that...

 and 1920

1920 English cricket season

The 1920 English cricket season had no Test cricket as the post-war recovery continued. Middlesex rose from 13th in 1919 to take the first of two back-to-back titles...

 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.

Warren was born in Codnor Park, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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, the son of John Warren, a builder, and his wife Mary. He made his debut for Derbyshire against Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 in May 1897. During his time at Derbyshire, he was partnered by Billy Bestwick

Billy Bestwick

William Bestwick was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1898 and 1926. He was a demon medium-fast bowler who took over 1400 wickets for the county, including 10 in one innings...

 in a dangerous fast-bowling partnership that never gained much reward because they had very small totals to bowl at. 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

English cricket team

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 cap

Test cricket

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 against Australia

Australian cricket team

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 at Headingley in 1905

1905 English cricket season

Yorkshire pipped defending champions Lancashire to the County Championship title in the 1905 English cricket season, which also included a tour by the Australian cricket team...

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He played in the Headingley (Leeds) Ashes Test of 1905. 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. Although he dismissed the cream of Australia's batting, taking the prized wicket of Victor Trumper

Victor Trumper

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 in both innings, he was not selected again.

In 1910

1910 English cricket season

-Honours:*County Championship - Kent*Minor Counties Championship - Norfolk*Wisden - Harry Foster, Alfred Hartley, Charles Llewellyn, Razor Smith, Frank Woolley-External sources:*...

, when playing against Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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 at Blackwell

Blackwell, Bolsover

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 Warren scored 123 in less than three hours in a ninth-wicket stand of 283 with John Chapman. This remains a world record in all first-class cricket.

Warren died in Codnor

Codnor

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, Derbyshire at the age of 76.