Benjamin Frank

{{Short description|Indian cricketer (1919–1986)}}

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| birth_date = 1919

| birth_place = Bangalore, Mysore, British India

| death_date = 12 August {{death year and age|1986|1919}}

| death_place = Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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| date = 27 March 2016

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Benjamin Frank (1919 – 12 August 1986) was an Indian cricketer.{{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}} He played first-class cricket for Assam,{{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}} Bengal and Mysore.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28743.html |title=Benjamin Frank |access-date=27 March 2016 |work=ESPNcricinfo}} He played for Bengal in the 1952–53 Ranji Trophy.

Frank made his first-class debut playing in the Bombay Pentangular in the 1940s. He went on to play for Mysore state,{{Cite news|last=Jaishankar|first=Vedam|date=26 August 2013|title=Garudachar awaits another ton|work=Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/garudachar-awaits-another-ton/articleshow/22059787.cms|access-date=16 April 2021}} before joining the Mohun Bagan Club in Calcutta. Here he played with success against touring teams becoming the first Indian player to score a century against the West Indian side in 1948.{{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}} A few years later he scored 93 against the visiting Pakistanis. Cricket writer Ramachandra Guha writes that he would have made the national side had he not come from an underprivileged background.

In 1959, Benjamin Frank recommended that Kenneth Powell, a bowler for Kolar Gold Fields, switch to running.