Allan Pearse
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| Full name | Allan Arthur Pearse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
22 April 1915 Watchet, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
14 June 1981 (aged 66) Watchet, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1936–38 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 6 June 1936 Somerset v Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 19 August 1938 Somerset v Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 23 October 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Allan Arthur Pearse (22 April 1915 – 14 June 1981) played first-class cricket for Somerset in nine matches between 1936 and 1938.[1] He was born and died at Watchet, Somerset.
Pearse was a middle-order right-handed batsman whose club cricket was for Watchet Cricket Club, where Harold Gimblett was his contemporary. As a 16-year-old, playing for Watchet against Wellington Cricket Club, he joined Gimblett with the Watchet score at 37 for seven chasing a total of 160. The pair added the 123 runs needed, Gimblett scoring 91 and Pearse 33.[2] Pearse followed Gimblett into the Somerset side, making his debut in 1936 at the Agricultural Showgrounds, Frome, the same ground where Gimblett had made his sensational debut a year earlier. In his first innings he scored 20, which was the second highest of the Somerset innings against Kent.[3] But in five other first-class matches in the 1936 season he failed to score more than 10 in any innings, and in two matches in 1937 he also made little impression. His last first-class game in 1938 saw him batting at No 10 and failing to score in either innings.[4]
References
- ↑ "Allan Pearse". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
- ↑ David Foot. Harold Gimblett: Tormented Genius of Cricket (1984 ed.). Star (W. H. Allen). p. 53. ISBN 0-352-31426-5.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 1936-06-06. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Worcestershire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1938-08-17. Retrieved 2010-10-23.