{{short description|South African cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Roland Pearce | image = | country = South Africa | fullname = Roland Anthony Pearce | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1930|6|19|df=yes}} | birth_place = Singapore | death_date = | death_place = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicketkeeper-batsman | club1 = Natal | year1 = 1956–57 to 1957–58 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 6 | runs1 = 152 | bat avg1 = 16.88 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 95 | deliveries1 = 0 | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 15/2 | date = 4 October 2017 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/46820.html Cricinfo }} '''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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22269.html| title = Natal v Western Province 1956–57| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =4 October 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22271.html| title = South African XI v MCC 1956–57| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =4 October 2017}}</ref> He played just four more matches for Natal over that season and the next.
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=46820}} *{{cricketarchive|id=14287}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pearce, Roland}} Category:1930 births Category:Living people Category:South African cricketers Category:KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Category:Singaporean emigrants to South Africa