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Roger Pierce (cricketer)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ39201928 ↗
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Roger Alen Pierce (born 24 May 1952) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Central Districts from 1971 to 1985.

A middle-order batsman, Pierce scored 73 and 100 not out, his highest score, for Central Districts against Northern Districts in 1973–74. He also played Hawke Cup cricket for Nelson from 1970 to 1989, and was named in the Hawke Cup Team of the Century in 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roger Pierce (cricketer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.