Francis Thomas Mann (3 March 1888 – 6 October 1964) was an English cricketer. He played for the Malvern XI,

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and

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. Mann captained England on the 1922–23 tour of South Africa, winning the five match series 2–1. Mann was born in

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. During

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he was an officer of the

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and was three times wounded and three times mentioned in dispatches. He died, aged 76, in

Milton Lilbourne Milton Lilbourne is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England, in the Vale of Pewsey between Pewsey and Burbage. It is largely a mixed residential area centred on the Manor. The nearest town is Marlborough, to the north. ...

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. His son, George Mann, also captained Middlesex County Cricket Club and England, making them the first father and son to have each captained Middlesex and, moreover, the first to have each captained England, at

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 str ...

Simon Mann Simon Francis Mann (born 26 June 1952) is a British mercenary and former officer in the SAS. He trained to be an officer at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Scots Guards. He later became a member of the SAS. On leaving the military, h ...

, the security expert and mercenary, is his grandson.

References

Frank Mann
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-29. * Hodgson D (2001

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The spinner who saved the day for 'Jim' Swanton
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'', 16 December 2009. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
Club History
Cranbourne Cricket Club.

External links

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