Lawrence Ivor Pearson (25 January 1922 — 1 October 2007) was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 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. He was a left-handed batsman who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

during the 1946 season.

Pearson, one of ten players who made their County Championship debut the year the Championship came back after the Second World War, had been playing since the previous July, but made his foray into the County Championship after its reinstallation. As Derbyshire finished in a disappointing fifteenth position in the table, Pearson found himself out of the team.

Pearson was an upper-order batsman for the Derbyshire team for the short time he played, though he finished with one of the lowest averages of the season.

External links

• Jack Pearson at Cricket Archive