Andrew Stuart Pearson is a former English

English people

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. Pearson was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break

Off break

Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....

. He was born in Rustington

Rustington

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, Sussex

Sussex

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Having played for the Northamptonshire Second XI

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1974 and 1980, Pearson later made his debut for Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire County Cricket Club

Bedfordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Bedfordshire and competing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The Minor Counties play three-day...

 against Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1981 Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire from 1981 to 1987, making 40 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 8 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

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 appearances. He made his List A debut against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in the 1982 NatWest Trophy

1982 NatWest Trophy

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. In this match he scored 39 runs before being dismissed by Viv Richards

Viv Richards

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. He made a further List A appearance against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1985 NatWest Trophy

1985 NatWest Trophy

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. He scored 4 runs in this match, before being dismissed by David Lawrence

David Lawrence (cricketer)

David Valentine Lawrence is a former English cricketer, who played in five Tests and one ODI for England from 1988 to 1992....

. He later played a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match for the Northamptonshire Cricket Board

Northamptonshire Cricket Board

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 against Suffolk

Suffolk County Cricket Club

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External links

• Andrew Pearson at ESPNcricinfo
• Andrew Pearson at CricketArchive
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