Cecil Joseph Herbert Pearson (22 January 1888 – 14 September 1971) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. A bespectacled cricketer, Pearson was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Poplar, London. Pearson made his only first-class appearance for

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in the 1922 County Championship against Nottinghamshire. He bowled 4 overs in Nottinghamshire's first-innings, though he didn't take any wickets. In Glamorgan's first-innings, he scored 9 runs before being dismissed by

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. In their second-innings, he was dismissed for a duck by

Fred Barratt Fred Barratt (12 April 1894 – 29 January 1947) played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club from 1914 to 1931 and represented England in five Test matches, one in the home series against South Africa in 1929 and four on ...

, becoming one of Barratt's 8 victims in that innings, as a Glamorgan side in its second season of first-class cricket capitulated to 47 all out, to lose by an innings and 125 runs. He died in Porthcawl,

on 14 September 1971.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pearson, Cecil 1888 births 1971 deaths People from Poplar, London Cricketers from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets English cricketers Glamorgan cricketers