Roland Leather, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRoland Leather
English county cricketer
Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1880
Place of Birth: Kirkstall, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 03-Jan-1913
Profession: cricketer
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Roland Leather
- Roland Sutcliffe Leather (17 August 1880 – 3 January 1913) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1906, against the West Indian tourists at St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate.
- he also played for the Yorkshire Second XI from 1904 to 1906. Born in Kirkstall, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, Leather was a right-handed opening batsman, he scored 5 and 14 as Yorkshire were beaten by 262 runs, despite a second innings century from David Denton.
- Richard Ollivierre took 11 wickets for the tourists, while Percy Goodman scored an unbeaten century in the same game. Leather died in January 1913 in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, aged 32.
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