Career
A right-handed batsman born in Fitzroy, Tarrant made his debut for Victoria in January 1890, playing a standalone fixture against Tasmania at the Telecommunications Carriers Association Ground in Hobart. His career continued until the 1897-1898 season, with little success. In total, Tarrant played nine first-class matches, scoring 233 runs at an average of 17.92.
Only one of those matches came in the Sheffield Shield, which had been instituted for the 1892-1893 season, and Tarrant"s final three matches came against Tasmania and Western Australia, neither of which played Shield matches at the time owing to their relative weakness.
Outside of inter-colonial matches, Tarrant had a long and successful career for the South Melbourne and Fitzroy Cricket Clubs in VCA Pennant matches. He had participated in the inaugural 1889-1890 premiership season, which succeeded an earlier Challenge Cup, and played regularly up until the 1909-1910 season, by which time he was 43.
His final career tally of 142 matches includes a one-off appearance for Fitzroy against University during the 1921-1922 season, at the age of 55. Frank Tarrant"s son, Louis Tarrant, played a single first-class match and also umpired at first-class level