Peter Walker (cricketer, born 1936)
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Full name | Peter Michael Walker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Clifton, Bristol, England | 17 February 1936|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 5 April 2020 | (aged 84)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 9 June 1960 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 7 July 1960 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 17 April 2020 |
Peter Michael Walker MBE (17 February 1936 – 5 April 2020[1]) was an English cricketer, who played in three Test matches for the England cricket team in 1960.[2]
Playing career
Walker was born in Clifton, Bristol, England, but educated partly in South Africa. A tall right-handed middle-order batsman, a left-arm bowler who varied his pace between medium-paced seamers and slow spinners, and a spectacularly good close catcher, specialising in fielding at short-leg, he played all his county cricket for Glamorgan.[1]
For a few years at the beginning of his cricket career, he also played during the English winters for the South African provincial sides,
As a batsman, Walker made 1,000 runs in a season eleven times,
Walker was picked for three Tests against
After cricket
He stayed with Glamorgan until 1972 when, after being passed over for the captaincy, he retired to become a cricket writer and broadcaster. For many years, he introduced the BBC Television's coverage of the Sunday League.
In 1985, Walker was the founder and managing director of Merlin Television, which became the largest independent production company in Wales, and after selling out in 1996, became the first chief executive of the newly formed
In 2009, he was elected President of Glamorgan County Cricket Club.
Walker was appointed
He died on 5 April 2020 at the age of 84, after a stroke.[6]
Books
- Winning Cricket (1965)
- Cricket Conversations (1978)
- The All-Rounder (1979)
- It's Not Just Cricket (autobiography) (ISBN 0-9544-8864-4)[7]
References
- ^ ISBN 1-869833-21-X.
- ^ "Obituary: Peter Walker". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Glamorgan stalwart Peter Walker dies aged 84". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Peter Walker - a tribute". Glamorgan CCC. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ^ "No. 59647". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2010. p. 23.
- ^ "Obituary: Glamorgan and England cricketer Peter Walker". BBC Sport. BBC. 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Peter Walker". Fairfield Books. Retrieved 8 July 2019.