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Sir Pelham Francis Warner (
2 October 1873 in
Port of Spain,
Trinidad -
30 January 1963 at
West Lavington, West Sussex), affectionately and better known as
Plum Warner, or the
Grand Old Man of
English cricket was a
Test cricketer.
A right-hand bat, Warner played
first-class cricket for
Oxford University,
Middlesex and England. He played 15
Test matches, captaining in 10 of them, with a record of won 4, lost 6. He succeeding in regaining
The Ashes in 1903-4, winning the series against
Australia 3-2. However he was less successful when he captained England on the tour of
South Africa in
1905/
6, suffering a resounding 1-4 defeat, the first time England had lost to South Africa in a Test match. He was also to have captained England on the 1911-2 tour of Australia, but fell ill. He was unable to play in any of the Tests, with
Johnny Douglas taking over the captaincy.
He was named
Wisden Cricketer of the Year in
1904 and
1921, making him one of two to have received the honour twice (the normal rule is that it can only be won once). The second award marked his retirement as a county player after the
1920 season, in which he captained Middlesex to the
County Championship title.
He didn't play in another first-class ficture until 1926-7, when he captained an
MCC side to
Argentina, in which the four representative matches against the host nation were accorded first-class status. MCC won the series by 2 games to one, with one match drawn. He played one more first-class match, in 1929 for the MCC against the
Royal Navy.
After retiring as a player, he became a tour manager, most notably on the infamous
Bodyline tour of Australia in 1932/3. He later became president of the
Marylebone Cricket Club. He was
knighted for his services to cricket in
1937.
Warner wrote extensively on cricket. He detailed his
Ashes Tests and a history of
Lord's Cricket Ground. He founded
The Cricketer magazine. He married Agnes in the summer of
1904 and had two sons, Esmond and John, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
His brother
Aucher Warner not only captained the first combined West Indies side in the West Indies during the 1896-97 season but also the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.
External references
Bibliography
Lord's 1787-1945 ISBN 1-85145-112-9Further Information
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