Background
He was born in North Adelaide, South Australia and died at Sanctuary Cove, Queensland.
He was born in North Adelaide, South Australia and died at Sanctuary Cove, Queensland.
He played first-class cricket for Leicestershire in 1951 and 1952, and then played a single successful season for South Australia in 1960/61. Sargent was recruited in 1951 for Leicestershire in English cricket alongside another young South Australian club cricketer, Philip Saunders, by the captain and secretary Charles Palmer. Leicestershire already had two prominent Australian cricketers in Jack Walsh and Vic Jackson.
His first innings in first-class cricket, in the match against a weak Oxford University side, was a promising 52.
After his dalliance with first-class cricket in England, Sargent returned to club cricket with Glenelg Cricket Club in South Australia, with which he was associated for 20 years as a player. In the second innings of his first game, he hit 82, higher than he had managed in any of his previous first-class endeavours.
In the season as a whole he scored 564 runs at an average of 33.17. But he did not play first-class cricket again.
After his retirement from club cricket at Glenelg, he was a state selector for the South Australia team