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Roger Meredith Harris (born 27 July 1933, Otahuhu, Auckland) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in two Tests in 1959.
Cricket career
A right-handed opening batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler, Harris played for Auckland from 1955-56 to 1973–74. In the 1958-59 Plunket Shield season he made 329 runs at an average of 36.55. He was selected to open the batting against England in the two Tests at the end of the season, he and his opening partner Bruce Bolton both making their Test debuts. He was not successful, scoring 31 runs in the two matches, and played no further Tests.
In first-class cricket his top score was 157 for Auckland against Northern Districts in 1969–70. He and Graham Gedye opened the batting together in several hundred games for Papatoetoe Cricket Club and for Auckland in the Plunket Shield, and continued the partnership playing lawn bowls together for 30 more years.