Peter Petherick
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Infobox cricketer Peter James Petherick (25 September 1942 – 7 June 2015) was a New Zealand cricketer who represented New Zealand in six Test cricket matches between October 1976 and March 1977 as an off-spinner. He is one of two New Zealand bowlers to achieve a hat-trick in Test matches. He is one of only three players, along with Maurice Allom and Damien Fleming, to have taken a hat-trick on Test debut.
Domestic career
Making his first-class debut at 33,[1] he played for Otago from 1975–76 to 1977–78, and for Wellington from 1978–79 to 1980–81. In his fifth match he took 9 for 93 in the first innings against Northern Districts,[2] and he finished the 1975–76 season with 42 wickets at 20.13.
After cricket
After his retirement from cricket, Petherick took up lawn bowls, and skippered a two-man team to the final of the New Zealand national bowls championship in 2006.[3] He died in Perth, Australia, on 7 June 2015.[4][5]
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External links
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- "Greatest moments in Otago sport, number 54: Petherick bamboozles the Pakistanis" Otago Daily Times, 12 September 2011.
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- ↑ Otago v Northern Districts 1975-76
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