Peter Lever

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Peter Lever
Personal information
Born (1940-09-17) 17 September 1940 (age 83)
Todmorden, Yorkshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RelationsColin Lever (brother)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC
Matches 17 10 301
Runs scored 350 17 3534
Batting average 21.87 17.00 14.25
100s/50s 0/2 0/0 0/11
Top score 88* 8* 88*
Balls bowled 3571 440 45,945
Wickets 41 11 796
Bowling average 36.80 23.72 25.59
5 wickets in innings 2 0 28
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 2
Best bowling 6/38 4/35 7/70
Catches/stumpings 11/– 2/– 106/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 October 2022

Peter Lever (born 17 September 1940)

New Zealand, he almost killed the New Zealand Test debutant Ewen Chatfield with a bouncer.[2]

Career

Lever, whose brother

Perth on 1 December 1970.[2] He managed two with the bat, but took one wicket in each innings.[3]

Lever could deliver a dangerous bouncer, despite his gentle nature. Both were in evidence during a Test match between New Zealand and England in 1975 at Eden Park, Auckland, when New Zealand number 11 Ewen Chatfield was struck on the temple by one of Lever's bouncers. Chatfield's life was saved by the England team physiotherapist who performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage.[4] Lever, in abject horror, fell to his knees, and had to be helped off the pitch by his team-mates.[1][5] Lever later recalled: "I honestly thought I had killed him as I saw him lying there in convulsions. I felt sick and ashamed at what I had done and all I could think when I got back to the pavilion was that I wanted to retire." However, when Lever visited Chatfield in hospital later, Chatfield assured Lever that the incident was not his fault.[6] Lever went on to take 41 wickets in Test cricket, at 36.80 and including best bowling figures of 6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's.[2]

Lever also played ten

One Day Internationals, including all England's matches the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, the first one-day international of all,[7] and his last match was the world cup semi final at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975.[8] This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia during Ashes tours, in both the Test and one day form of the game.[2]

Lever's best Test bowling figures came also in an

India in 1971, sharing an 8th wicket stand of 168 with Ray Illingworth, still as of 2022 England's highest eighth-wicket stand against India in Test matches. Lever also took his first Test five-wicket haul in the same match.[12]

Lever's domestic career continued until 1976 in first-class cricket, and until 1983 in

coach at his old club, Lancashire.[13] In the mid-1990s Lever also assisted Illingworth during his time as chairman of selectors.[14]

In later years he helped coach at Lewdown Cricket Club in Devon.[15]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-869833-21-X
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  2. ^
    CricInfo
    retrieved 24 April 2008
  3. CricInfo
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  4. cricinfo
    . Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  5. cricinfo
    . The Cricketer International. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  6. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  7. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  8. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  9. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  10. ESPNCricinfo
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  11. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  12. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  13. ^ Agnew, Jonathan, I'd pay to watch... BBC News retrieved 24 April 2008
  14. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  15. ^ Officials at Lewdown Cricket Club, retrieved 6 July 2009

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