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{{short description|English cricketer and colonial police officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming
| birth_date = 2 November 1891
| birth_place = [[Calne]], [[Wiltshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|2|6|1891|11|2|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Droxford]], [[Hampshire]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1921/22
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 6
| bat avg1 = 3.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 5
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| date = 8 November
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/27752.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming''' {{postnominal|CIE}} (2 November 1891 – 6 February 1981) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and colonial police officer.

The son of R. C. Cumming, he was born at [[Calne]], Wiltshire, in November 1891. Cumming was educated at [[St Paul's School, London]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Admission Registers of St. Paul's School|last1=Gardiner|first1=Robert Barlow|publisher=[[George Bell & Sons]]|location=London|year=1906|page=466|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YZCAQAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref> He joined the [[Colonial Police Service]] in [[British India]] in 1911 as an assistant [[Superintendent (police)#United Kingdom|superintendent]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=The India Office and Burma Office List for 1945|publisher=[[Office of Public Sector Information|His Majesty's Stationery Office]]|location=London|year=1945|page=172|edition=55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XiUbAQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> Cumming played [[first-class cricket]] in India for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] at [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in the 1922 [[Madras Presidency Matches|Madras Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13251/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Roualeyn Cumming|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-08|url-access=subscription}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10349.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1921/22|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-08|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In the colonial police he was promoted to superintendent in April 1922, and 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]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Cumming was made a Companion to the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in the [[1942 Birthday Honours]] and was decorated with the [[Queen's Police Medal|King's Police and Fire Service Medal]] during the Second World War.<ref name="BOOK"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35029|date=31 December 1940|page=43|supp=y}}</ref> Cumming died in England in February 1981 at [[Droxford|Droxford, Hampshire]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27752}}

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[[Category:1891 births]]
[[Category:1981 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Calne]]
[[Category:British police officers in India]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Wiltshire]]

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