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| birth_place = [[Bangalore]], India<br />
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'''Benjamin Frank''' (1919 &ndash; 12 August 1986) was an Indian [[cricket]]er.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|date=2002-09-02|title=Frank of Bangalore|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/09/01/stories/2002090100400300.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=2020-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727023116/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/09/01/stories/2002090100400300.htm|work=[[The Hindu]]|archive-date=2013-07-27}}</ref> He played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Assam cricket team|Assam]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=A brief history of Assam cricket association|url=http://www.assamcricket.com/history|access-date=16 April 2021|website=Assam Cricket Association}}</ref> [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] and [[Mysore cricket team|Mysore]].<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28743.html |title=Benjamin Frank |access-date=27 March 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> He played for Bengal in the [[1952–53 Ranji Trophy]].<br />
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Frank made his first-class debut playing in the Bombay Pentagular in the 1940s. He went on to play for [[Mysore State|Mysore state]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Jaishankar|first=Vedam|date=26 August 2013|title=Garudachar awaits another ton|work=Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.com/city/bengaluru/garudachar-awaits-another-ton/articleshow/22059787.cms|access-date=16 April 2021}}</ref> before joining the Mohun Bagan Club in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]. Here he played with success against touring teams becoming the first Indian player to score a century against the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indian]] side in 1948.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Srikumar|first=S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrWEAwAAQBAJ&dq|title=Kolar Gold Field (Unfolding the untold)|publisher=Partridge Publishing|year=2014|isbn=9781482815078|pages=733}}</ref> A few years later he scored 93 against the visiting [[Pakistani cricket team in England in 2020|Pakistanis]]. Cricket writer Ramachandra Guha writes that he would have made the national side had he not come from an underprivileged background.<ref name=":0" /> <br />
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In 1959, Benjamin Frank recommended that [[Kenneth Powell (sprinter)|Kenneth Powell]], a bowler for Kolar Gold Fields, switch to running.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Bengal cricketers]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cricinfo|id=28743}}<br />
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[[Category:1919 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Assam cricketers]]<br />
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[[Category:Cricketers from Bangalore]]<br />
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