Horace Venn, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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cricketer
Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1892
Date of Death: 23-Nov-1953
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Horace Venn
- Horace Venn (4 July 1892 – 23 November 1953) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1919 and 1925 for Warwickshire.
- He was born and died at Coventry, now in West Midlands but formerly in Warwickshire. Venn was prominent as a right-handed batsman in Coventry district club cricket before the First World War, playing for the Foleshill Victoria club, and also appeared in second eleven matches for Warwickshire.
- He did not at this stage play first-class cricket, but in 1919, he turned out for a "full" Warwickshire side – composed mainly of amateurs – in a first-class non-County Championship game against Worcestershire and, opening the batting, scored 151.
- In the return match a few weeks later, his 58 in his only innings was the top score of the game.
- That appears to have encouraged Venn to give a whole season to first-class cricket and he was a regular opening batsman for the first three months of the 1920 season.
- Initially, he was quite successful, and against Kent at Catford he made 115 out of Warwickshire's total of 233, his second and final first-class century.
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack noted: "Strong in defence with a stiff fore-arm forcing stroke, Venn got most of his runs in front of the wicket.
- He played-on after two and a half hours' batting, having scored 115 out of 222." Venn did not pass 50 in any other innings that season, and his record for the season as a whole was modest, with 591 runs at an average of 16.41 runs per innings.Venn returned to Warwickshire for a few early matches in the 1921 season, but was not successful; he then played three times in 1922 and once in 1925, again without making much impact.
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