Christopher James Pearce (born 19 April 1984) is 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. Pearce is a right-handed
batsman
In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...
who bowls
leg break
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. He was born in
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton () is a city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England. The population size has increased by 5.7%, from around 249,500 in 2011 to 263,700 in 2021. People from the city are called "Wulfrunian ...
, England.
Pearce represented the
Worcestershire Cricket Board
The Worcestershire Cricket Board is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is ...
in a single
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
match against
Worcestershire
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in the
2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. In his only List A match, he scored 5 runs and took a single
catch in the field.
List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Christopher Pearce
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References
External links
at Cricinfo
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Christopher Pearce
at CricketArchive
1984 births
Living people
Cricketers from Wolverhampton
English cricketers
Worcestershire Cricket Board cricketers
Alumni of Durham University
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