William Ambrose Tarrant (22 September 1866 – 1 November 1938) was an Australian

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er who played at first-class level for Victoria during the 1890s. A right-handed batsman born in

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, Tarrant made his debut for Victoria in January 1890, playing a standalone fixture against

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at the TCA Ground in

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.First-class matches played by Ambrose Tarrant (9)
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015. His career continued until the 1897–98 season, with little success. In total, Tarrant played nine first-class matches, scoring 233 runs at an

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of 17.92. Only one of those matches came in the

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, which had been instituted for the 1892–93 season, and Tarrant's final three matches came against Tasmania and

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, neither of which played Shield matches at the time owing to their relative weakness. His highest first-class score (and only half-century) had come in

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in January 1892, an innings of 82 runs against

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that helped Victoria win by an innings and 15 runs. Outside of inter-colonial matches, Tarrant had a long and successful career for the South Melbourne and Fitzroy Cricket Clubs in VCA Pennant matches. He had participated in the inaugural 1889–90 premiership season, which succeeded an earlier Challenge Cup, and played regularly up until the 1909–10 season, by which time he was 43. His final career tally of 142 matches includes a one-off appearance for Fitzroy against

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during the 1921–22 season, at the age of 55. Tarrant's nephew,

Frank Tarrant Francis Alfred Tarrant (11 December 1880 – 29 January 1951) was an Australian cricketer whose first-class career spanned from 1899 to 1936, and included 329 matches. From Melbourne, Tarrant began his career with Victoria in Australia's Sheff ...

, was a noted

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who played over 300 first-class matches for Australian, English, and Indian teams. Frank Tarrant's son,

Louis Tarrant Loris Bernard Napoleon Tarrant (29 December 1903 – c. August 1943) was an Australian cricketer who both played and umpired first-class matches in India during the 1930s. Unusually, he made his debut as a first-class umpire before making his d ...

, played a single first-class match and also umpired at first-class level.Louis Tarrant
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tarrant, Ambrose 1866 births 1938 deaths Australian cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne Fitzroy cricketers South Melbourne cricketers Victoria cricketers People from Fitzroy, Victoria

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