Michael Pierce (3 September 1869 – 4 February 1913) was an Australian
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.
He played eight
first-class matches for
New South Wales and
Queensland between 1892/93 and 1894/95.
Short, thick-set and muscular, Mick Pierce was a slow leg-break bowler who could spin the ball sharply even on the hardest pitch.
[ On his first-class debut in December 1892, which was also the first-ever Sheffield Shield match, Pierce opened the bowling for New South Wales and took 8 for 111 and 5 for 154, but South Australia nevertheless won by 57 runs. A week later, in the second Sheffield Shield match, he took 6 for 100 and 1 for 63 against Victoria, but again he was on the losing side.][
Pierce died in February 1913 after a long illness.]
See also
* List of New South Wales representative cricketers
References
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1869 births
1913 deaths
Australian cricketers
New South Wales cricketers
Queensland cricketers
Cricketers from Sydney
Colony of New South Wales people