Roland Parker

Roland John Parker (born 19 July 1925) OBE is an English former first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer.

Parker was born at Pudsey, where he was coached by Herbert Sutcliffe during his youth. He joined the Royal Air Force in the latter stages of the Second World War, serving as a pilot officer as an emergency commission on probation in July 1945. After a successful probation he was promoted to flying officer in October 1945. He played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team in 1947, making two appearances against Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire, scoring 36 runs. Fifty years later he was a made an OBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to community sport in Pudsey.