Francis Thomas Prentice (22 April 1912 – 10 July 1978) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1934 and 1951.
[2] But with competition for places in Yorkshire's first eleven very stiff, he left to join Leicestershire, where he was not qualified for County Championship games until 1935.
[4] His record improved to 989 runs and an average of 24.12 in 1936, but Wisden was less impressed: "Prentice showed extremely sound defence, but did not appear to have many strokes at his command," it wrote, noting also that, with the likely unavailability of Alan Shipman in 1937, "efforts were made to convert Prentice into an opening batsman".
[5] He bowled less after the war, and scarcely at all after 1947, but in 1946, despite the presence in the Leicestershire attack of Vic Jackson and Jack Walsh, he took five Gloucestershire wickets for 46 runs, and these were the best figures of his career.
[13] Prentice was granted a testimonial in 1950, but had a poor season with bat, losing his place in the team mid-season and regaining it only at the end of the year.
At the end of the 1950 season, he retired from full-time cricket to go into business; he appeared in just four matches in 1951, playing as an amateur, and those were the last games of his career.