Leslie Roff Vincent Prentice (30 November 1886 – 13 August 1928) was an Australian-born English

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er. A right-handed

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and right-arm slow bowler, he had a brief

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career for

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in the early 1920s.

Biography

Prentice was born in Fitzroy, a suburb of

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, Victoria, on 30 November 1886. He played twice for the

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against the

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in 1913 and 1914. He made his first-class debut in May 1920 when he played for Middlesex against

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. In his second first-class match, a

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match against

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, he took 6/95 in the second

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, his only

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in first-class cricket. Prentice played three further County Championship matches for Middlesex in the 1920 season before playing two matches for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against Oxford University and

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. He then played for the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the South in July. During the 1921 season, he played six times for Middlesex before another two matches for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against the two university teams. Prentice did not play for Middlesex in the 1922 season, playing just once for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against Oxford University. He played his final first-class match in the 1923 season when he played for Middlesex against Oxford University. He died on 13 August 1928 in

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, at the age of 41.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prentice, Leslie 1886 births 1928 deaths Cricketers from Melbourne English cricketers Federated Malay States cricketers Middlesex cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers Australian emigrants to England 20th-century English sportsmen