Aloysius Pereira

Aloysius Stanislaus Pereira (30 December 1859 – 11 November 1935) was an Indian-born, English-educated tea-planter and a cricketer who played in a single first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1880.[1] He was born in Kolkata, then called Calcutta, and died in Dehradun, also in India.

Pereira was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Christ's College, Cambridge.[2] In minor cricket matches, he is recorded as opening the batting or playing in the middle order; he also bowled regularly in them.[1] In his only first-class match, a 12-a-side game for Cambridge University against a strong "England XI", he batted at No 10, scoring 3 and 7 and took one wicket and two catches in the single England innings.[3]

Pereira graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1881; he was reported as being a tea-planter in Muzaffarpur in 1912.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Aloysius Pereira". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Aloysius Pereira". Part 5. www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 93. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v England XI". www.cricketarchive.com. 10 May 1880. Retrieved 31 December 2014.