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{{short description|Indian-born, English-educated tea-planter and cricketer}}
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'''Aloysius Stanislaus Pereira''' (30 December 1859 – 11 November 1935) was an [[India|Indian-born]], [[England|English-educated]] tea-planter and a [[cricketer]] who played in a single [[first-class cricket]] match for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] in 1880.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32016/32016.html | title = Aloysius Pereira | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 30 December 2014}}</ref> He was born in [[Kolkata]], then called Calcutta, and died in [[Dehradun]], also in India.

Pereira was educated at [[Stonyhurst College]] and at [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/92/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Aloysius Pereira | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 5 | publisher = www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press | page = 93 | accessdate = 30 December 2014}}</ref> In minor cricket matches, he is recorded as opening the batting or playing in the middle order; he also bowled regularly in them.<ref name="ca"/> In his only first-class match, a 12-a-side game for Cambridge University against a strong "England XI", he batted at No 10, scoring 3 and 7 and took one wicket and two catches in the single England innings.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2340.html| title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v England XI | date = 10 May 1880 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 31 December 2014}}</ref> 

Pereira graduated from [[Cambridge University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1881; he was reported as being a tea-planter in [[Muzaffarpur]] in 1912.<ref name="venn"/>

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