Ronald Charles Harvey (born 7 May 1934) is a former English

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er. Harvey was a left-handed

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who bowled right-arm

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. He was born at

Ingatestone Ingatestone is a village and former civil parish in Essex, England, with a population of 5,365 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. Just north lies the village of Fryerning, the two forming now the parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning. In ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

. Harvey made his only first-class appearance for

against

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in 1952. In this match he took three wickets in T. N. Pearce's XI's first-innings, taking the wickets of

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and Peter Smith for the cost of 88 runs from 16 overs. Essex made just 205 in response to T. N. Pearce's XI's first-innings score of 389, with Harvey batting at number eleven ended unbeaten on 12. Essex were forced to

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in their second-innings and were dismissed for 159, with Harvey ending not out on zero. Essex lost the match by an innings and 25 runs.

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