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Full name | Roland Anthony Pearce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Singapore | 19 June 1930||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicketkeeper-batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1956-57 to 1957-58 | Natal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 4 October 2017 |
Roland Anthony Pearce (born 19 June 1930 in Singapore) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in South Africa in 1956 and 1957.
Roland Pearce made a spectacular start to his brief first-class career. Early in the 1956-57 South African cricket season he replaced Paul Randles, who had been Natal’s regular wicketkeeper since 1952-53, in the Natal team for the friendly match against Western Province. Pearce took seven catches and a stumping and, opening Natal’s innings with Trevor Goddard, made 95 and put on 163 for the first wicket. [1] He was immediately selected to keep wicket for the South African XI that played the touring MCC a week later. The South African XI won, but Pearce failed with the bat and made no dismissals. [2] He played just four more matches for Natal over that season and the next.
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