Frank Pinch (24 February 1891 – 8 October 1961) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for

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. He was born in

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and died in

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. Pinch began playing club cricket for Barry, and was called up by Glamorgan in 1920, their final season as a Minor County, scoring his maiden century against

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. A teacher by profession, he was at that time working as a teacher in Kent, but found enough time to make the trip to Glamorgan to play on several occasions, having made acquaintance with a Glamorgan official. In 1921, Pinch became the first Glamorgan batsman to hit a century on his debut first-class match, at home against

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in Glamorgan's first season of County Cricket – the only debut century for the team for sixty-four years. This was, however, the only century of his career, and the only season in which he would rack up ten first-class appearances. Pinch continued to bat in the Glamorgan middle-order, scoring well during this first season, but from this point on his first-class averages tailed off, though his club averages remained consistently high. However, in each but his last season, his best scores for the season were in or around the half-century mark, until the last season he played, 1926, in which professional non-cricketing commitments took over more of his time.

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