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Born | Alan Louden Pearsall 21 May 1915 Hobart, Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 March 1944 | (aged 28)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1933/34–1938/39 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 31 December 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alan Louden Pearsall (21 May 1915 – 8 March 1944) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Tasmania and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with South Melbourne.
The son of Benjamin James Pearsall (1880-1951),[1][2] and Olive Mabel Pearsall, née Marsden, Alan Louden Pearsall was born at the Edinburgh Hospital, MacQuarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania on 21 May 1915.[3]
He married Dorothy Eva Bumford on 15 March 1941.[4]
Pearsall made seven first-class appearances for Tasmania during the 1930s, scoring a total of 300 runs at 23.07 and taking 6 wickets.
He made his debut in a match against an Australian XI team and dismissed Bill Brown for 96.[7] Ian Johnson and Keith Miller are other Test players whose wicket he took in his career.
He opened the batting against Victoria at Launceston in 1935/36 and made the only half century of his career, an innings of 56.[8]
Pearsall played football for Lefroy in Tasmania from 1933[9] until 1940.[10]
When Pearsall moved to Victoria to do his pilot training he joined South Melbourne and played two VFL games for the club in 1941.[11]
In World War II, Pearsall served as a Flying Officer with the RAAF.
He died, on active service, on 8 March 1944, when his plane came down into the English Channel.