Roger Robert Andrew Francis Bradley (30 November 1962 – 24 March 2017) was a New Zealand-born Dutch

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er. Bradley was a right-handed batsman. Born in the New Zealand capital,

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, Bradley attended

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in Tauranga. He played a single first-class match for Northern Districts in the 1990/91 New Zealand cricket season against Central Districts. By 1995, he had moved to the Netherlands and in June of that year he made his debut for the

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in the

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against

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. Over the next seven years he played 15 List A matches for the Netherlands, competing in the English domestic one-day tournament, the 2000 ICC Emerging Nations Tournament and the 2002 ICC 6 Nations Challenge. In his 15 List A matches for his adopted country, Bradley scored 278 runs at a batting average of 19.85, with two half centuries. His highest score was 78 against

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in 1999, when he won the player of the match award. He also represented the Netherlands in ten matches in the

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. Bradley died in Tauranga on 24 March 2017 after a long illness.

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