Pascall Ronald Roberts (15 December 1937 – 20 June 2011) was a Trinidad cricketer who played

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from 1961 to 1979. He toured with the

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but did not play

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. A versatile left-arm bowler who could open the bowling and also bowl orthodox spin, Roberts made his first-class debut for

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in 1960-61, taking 5 for 79 and 3 for 61 against

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. In his third match later that season he took 5 for 111 and 3 for 77 against E.W. Swanton's XI. Roberts played as a professional for Lowerhouse in the Lancashire League in 1963, when he made 283 runs at 17.48 and took 60 wickets at 12.98, and 1965, when he made 234 runs at 10.63 and took 70 wickets at 13.81. He played regularly for Trinidad throughout the 1960s, as well as appearing for North Trinidad in the

Beaumont Cup The Beaumont Cup was a Trinidadian first-class cricket competition which regional sides competed for, the matches taking place over three days. History The competition began in 1925–26, when Rolland Beaumont, the South African Test player who ...

, which was in those years a first-class competition. He was called for

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during the 1966-67

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. He took 13 wickets at an average of 26.07 in the 1968–69 Shell Shield season, and was selected for the 1969 tour of England. He played 11 first-class matches on the tour but took only 16 wickets at 46.50. After the 1969–70 season he lost his place in the Trinidad side to the spinners Jack Noreiga, Inshan Ali and

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, but he continued to be prominent in the Beaumont Cup. In the 1970-71 final he took 5 for 47 and 4 for 48 against East Trinidad. He captained North Trinidad from 1974-75 (when they won the title) to 1976-77. His only first-class score over 50 was 105 not out for North Trinidad against South Trinidad in 1976-77, after taking 6 for 66. In his last season, 1978-79, aged 41, he took 6 for 17 and 4 for 17 in an innings victory over

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. In all matches for North Trinidad he took 98 wickets at 16.58.Pascall Roberts bowling by team
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