Edward Arthur Argent (6 February 1898 – 20 July 1968) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played two first-class matches, both for

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in the space of a few days in 1928. He had very little success, taking no wickets from a total of 13 overs and making scores of 3, 0 and 19 with the bat. Argent was born in

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, London; he died aged 70 in

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* 1898 births 1968 deaths English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers People from Wandsworth Cricketers from the London Borough of Wandsworth {{England-cricket-bio-1890s-stub