Frank Rist (30 March 1914 – 8 September 2001) 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. He played for

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

between 1934 and 1953. He also played

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as a

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in the

Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

for

Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in C ...

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* * 1914 births 2001 deaths English cricketers Essex cricketers Footballers from the London Borough of Wandsworth People from Wandsworth Cricketers from London English men's footballers Men's association football wing halves Leyton Orient F.C. players Charlton Athletic F.C. players Grays Thurrock United F.C. players Blackpool F.C. wartime guest players Liverpool F.C. wartime guest players Bradford City A.F.C. wartime guest players Notts County F.C. wartime guest players Southport F.C. wartime guest players Southern Football League players English Football League players Colchester United F.C. players Tonbridge Angels F.C. players West Ham United F.C. non-playing staff Clapton Orient F.C. wartime guest players Royal Air Force personnel of World War II {{England-cricket-bio-1910s-stub