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{{short description|Australian cricketer and umpire}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Louis Tarrant
| country = Australia
| fullname = Louis Bernard Napoleon Tarrant
| birth_date = 29 December 1903
| birth_place = [[Clifton Hill, Victoria|Clifton Hill]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]
| death_date = 1943
| death_place = Freemantle. Western Australia
| nickname =
| family = [[Frank Tarrant|FA Tarrant]] (father)<br>[[Ambrose Tarrant|WA Tarrant]] (granduncle)
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| role = [[Batsman]], occasional [[wicket-keeper]]
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| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 16
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| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 16*
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| fcumpired = 2
| umpfcdebutyr = 1933
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| date = 11 January
| year = 2015
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/8025.html ESPNCricinfo
}}
[[File:1935-36 Australians in India 2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The 1935–36 Australian team on its tour of India. Louis (left) and Frank (right) Tarrant are either side of the {{convert|6|ft|6|in|m}} [[Fast bowling|fast bowler]] [[Lisle Nagel]] in the back row.]]
'''Louis Bernard Napoleon Tarrant''' (29 December 1903 – ?) was an Australian [[cricket]]er who both played and umpired [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches in India during the 1930s. Unusually, he made his debut as a first-class umpire before making his debut as a first-class player.

Born in [[Clifton Hill, Victoria]],<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16760/16760.html Louis Tarrant] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> Tarrant was the son of [[Frank Tarrant]], who played 329 first-class matches in Australia (for [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]]), England (for [[Middlesex CCC|Middlesex]]), and India (for [[Europeans cricket team|the Europeans]] and [[Patiala cricket team|Patiala]]).<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14687/14687.html Frank Tarrant] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> Frank Tarrant's uncle, [[Ambrose Tarrant]], also played at first-class level for Victoria.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16761/16761.html Ambrose Tarrant] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> While resident in India during the early 1930s, Louis Tarrant, aged 29, umpired two first-class matches during [[English cricket team in India in 1933–34|an MCC team's 1933–34 tour of Ceylon and India]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16760/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html Louis Tarrant as umpire in first-class matches (2)] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> In the first, beginning on 9 November 1933, [[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]], captained by [[Bhupinder Singh of Patiala|the Maharaja of Patiala]], hosted the Englishmen at [[Amritsar]]'s [[Alexandra Ground]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14863.html Southern Punjab v Marylebone Cricket Club], Marylebone Cricket Club in India and Ceylon 1933/34 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> Louis Tarrant umpired alongside his father, Frank, who was standing in a first-class match for only the second time (although he went to umpire two of the England–India [[Test cricket|Test matches]] played on the tour).<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14687/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html Frank Tarrant as umpire in first-class matches (8)] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> Other father-and-son pairs known to have umpired in the same first-class match include [[M. G. Vijayasarathi]] and his son [[M. V. Nagendra]], who umpired a match between [[Mysore cricket team|Mysore]] and [[Andhra Pradesh cricket team|Andhra]] during the 1960–61 season, and [[Tom Sewell senior]] and [[Tom Sewell junior|junior]], who umpired an 1863 [[Gentlemen v Players]] fixture.<ref name="fs">Arunabha Sengupta (8 August 2014). [http://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/18-father-son-pairs-who-have-appeared-in-the-same-match-18288 "18 father-son pairs who have appeared in the same match"] – Cricket Country. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref>

The second match Louis Tarrant umpired began the day after the conclusion of the first, with a Patiala team hosting the MCC at [[Patiala]]'s [[Baradari Ground]]. Frank Tarrant played for Patiala rather than umpire, with his son's umpiring companion being (The Rt. Rev.) [[George Barne (bishop)|George Barne]], an ex-[[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] player who was at the time [[Anglican Bishop of Lahore|Bishop of Lahore]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14864.html Patiala v Marylebone Cricket Club], Marylebone Cricket Club in India and Ceylon 1933/34 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> The following season, in December 1934, Louis Tarrant made up the numbers as [[wicket-keeper]] for Patiala in a non-first-class match against a [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay XI]], led by [[J. D. Antia]]. His teammates in that game included his father, Indian Test players [[Lala Amarnath]], [[Nazir Ali]], and [[Wazir Ali]], and [[Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark|Prince Peter of Greece]], a cousin of three [[List of kings of Greece|Kings of Greece]] and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], the future consort of [[Elizabeth II|Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/168/168080.html Patiala v JD Antia's Bombay XI], Other matches in India 1934/35 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> When an [[Australian cricket team in Ceylon and India in 1935–36|Australian team toured during the 1935–36 season]], Tarrant was called on to make up the team's numbers in two matches, firstly in a minor match against the [[Jagaddipendra Narayan|Maharaja of Cooch Behar]]'s team in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]],<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16760/Miscellaneous_Matches.html Miscellaneous matches played by Louis Tarrant (2)] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> and then in a match against Patiala, which was accorded first-class status.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16760/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Louis Tarrant (1)] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/8025.html Australia / Players / Louis Tarrant] – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref>

In his only first-class innings, Tarrant, aged 32, scored 16 [[not out]] batting ninth in the Australians' total of 484 all out. Owing to injury and illness, the team was so depleted that Frank Tarrant, aged 55, and the Maharajah of Patiala, aged 44, were both called upon to play, with the Maharajah given the honour of captaining the Australian team.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15683.html Patiala v Australians], Australia in India and Ceylon 1935/36 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> Patiala's captain was the Maharajah's son and heir, [[Yadavindra Singh|the Yuvraj of Patiala]], who later succeeded him on the ''gadi'' (throne). The Patialas and the Tarrants consequently each became one of the few father–son pairings to play in the same first-class match, with the Maharajah and the Yuvraj the only combination known to have captained opposing sides.<ref name="fs"/>

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