Peter Alfred Spicer (11 May 1939 – 18 August 1969) was an English cricketer. Spicer was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Ilford, Essex.
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| Full name | Peter Alfred Spicer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 May 1939 Ilford, Essex, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 August 1969 (aged 30) Hainault, Essex, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1962–1963 | Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 October 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spicer made his first-class debut for Essex against Somerset in the 1962 County Championship. His first scoring shot in the match was a six in a debut innings of 80.[1] He made sixteen further first-class appearances for Essex, the last of which came against Kent in the 1963 County Championship.[2] In his seventeen matches he scored just 526 runs at an average of 19.48, with a high score of 86.[3] This score, which was one of four fifties he made, came against the touring Pakistanis in 1962.[4] With the ball, he took 2 first-class wickets.[5] Both these wickets came in the same match against Middlesex in 1962, when he took the wickets of Don Bennett and Alan Moss, taking figures of 2/1 from 1.1 overs.[6] Most of his first-class appearances came in 1962, despite struggling to get in the Essex side in 1963, he did make a single List A appearance in the inaugural Gillette Cup against Lancashire.[7] In this match, which was also the first ever List A match Essex played, Spicer took the wicket of Ken Higgs in his second delivery of the match, while with the bat he scored 6 runs before he was dismissed by Jack Dyson, with Lancashire winning by 81 runs.[8] He continued to play Second XI cricket for Essex,[9] but made no further major appearances, leaving the county at the end of the 1966 season.
He coached cricket after leaving Essex, spending the summer of 1969 coaching in the Netherlands. Returning to England, he was killed in a car accident on 15 August 1969 at Hainault, Essex.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "Wisden – Obituaries in 1970". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. ESPNcricinfo. 4 December 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Peter Spicer". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Peter Spicer". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Essex v Pakistanis, 1963". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Peter Spicer". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Middlesex v Essex, 1962 County Championship". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "List A Matches played by Peter Spicer". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Lancashire v Essex, 1963 Gillette Cup". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Teams Peter Spicer played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
External links edit
- Peter Spicer at ESPNcricinfo
- Peter Spicer at CricketArchive