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| Full name | Roland John Parker | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 July 1925 Pudsey, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | October 2020 (aged 95) Pudsey, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 19 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Roland John Parker MBE (19 July 1925 - October 2020) was an English former first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. [1]
Parker was born at Pudsey, where he was coached by Herbert Sutcliffe and Len Hutton during his youth. [2] He joined the Royal Air Force in the latter stages of the Second World War, serving as a pilot officer as an emergency commission on probation in July 1945. [3] After a successful probation he was promoted to flying officer in October 1945. [4]
He played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team in 1947, making two appearances against Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire, [5] scoring 36 runs. [6] Fifty years later he was a made an MBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to community sport in Pudsey. [7]
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