6 February 1981(1981-02-06) (aged 89) Droxford, Hampshire, England
Batting
Unknown
Domestic team information
Years
Team
1921/22
Europeans
Career statistics
Competition
First-class
Matches
1
Runs scored
6
Batting average
3.00
100s/50s
–/–
Top score
5
Catches/stumpings
2/–
Source: Cricinfo, 8 November 2021
Roualeyn Charles Rossiter CummingCIE (2 November 1891 – 6 February 1981) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial police officer.
The son of R. C. Cumming, he was born at Calne in November 1891. Cumming was educated at St Paul's School, London.[1] He joined the Colonial Police Service in British India in 1911 as an assistant superintendent.[2] Cumming played first-class cricket in India for the Europeans against the Indians at Madras in the 1922 Madras Presidency Match.[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Europeans first innings for a single run by M. Venkataramanjulu, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by T. Vasu Nayudu.[4]
In the colonial police he was promoted to superintendent in April 1922, with him being appointed a deputy inspector-general of police in August 1935. In 1937, he was appointed inspector-general of police and joint secretary in the Home Department of Assam Province.[2] Cumming was made a Companion to the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours and was decorated with the King's Police and Fire Service Medal during the Second World War.[2][5] Cumming died in England in February 1981 at Droxford, Hampshire.
^Gardiner, Robert Barlow (1906). The Admission Registers of St. Paul's School. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 466.
^ abcThe India Office and Burma Office List for 1945 (55 ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1945. p. 172.
^"First-Class Matches played by Roualeyn Cumming". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^"Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1921/22". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^"No. 35029". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1940. p. 43.
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