Peter Drysdale (cricketer)
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| Full name | Rupert Peter Owens Drysdale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 January 1989 Forest Row, East Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009/10–present | Bay of Plenty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021/22 | Northern Districts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 8 April 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rupert Peter Owens Drysdale (born 7 January 1989) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for Bay of Plenty and Northern Districts.[1][2] After playing for the Bay of Plenty team in the Hawke Cup since the 2009/10 cricket season,[3] Drysdale made his first-class cricket debut for Northern Districts in April 2022, in the penultimate match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season.[4] Due to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the team, seven players made their first-class debuts for the team in the same match, with Drysdale doing so at the age of 33.[5]
Career
Drysdale was born in Forest Row, East Sussex, England in 1989,[3] and now lives in Tauranga, New Zealand.[5] He is the younger brother of New Zealand rower Mahé Drysdale,[5] who has won two gold medals and a bronze at three different editions of the Olympic Games.[6]
Drysdale has played cricket in England, featuring for the second XI for both Derbyshire and Leicestershire during the 2014 and 2015 summers respectively.[3] In 2014, Drysdale also played in the Huddersfield Cricket League in West Yorkshire, England, for Scholes cricket team.[7]
In October 2014, Drysdale became the eleventh cricketer for Bay of Plenty to play in fifty matches for the team.[8] Five years later, in December 2019, Drysdale was only the third cricketer for the team to feature in one hundred matches for the side.[9] In his 100 matches for the team, Drysdale had scored more than 3,000 runs, including three centuries, and had taken 24 wickets.[10] Drysdale had also captained the team during five seasons of the Hawke Cup.[10]
Drysdale was originally scheduled to make his first-class debut for Northern Districts against Auckland in March 2020, during the 2019–20 Plunket Shield season.[5] However, the final two rounds of that tournament were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
In April 2022, Northern Districts' penultimate match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season, against Central Districts, was abandoned on the fourth and final day after multiple cases of COVID-19 were reported within their squad.[12] Six days later, Northern Districts played their final round-robin match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season, against Wellington.[4] Due to the number of COVID-19 cases within the squad,[13] Northern Districts had nineteen players unavailable for their final match of the season.[5] Drysdale, at the age of 33, made his first-class cricket debut in the match.[5] Also making their debuts alongside Drysdale were Ben Pomare, Chris Swanson, Fergus Lellman, Josh Brown, Sam Varcoe and Sandeep Patel.[4] It was the highest number of debutants in the same match for Northern Districts since their inaugural first-class fixture in 1956.[14] In the first innings of the match, Drysdale only scored five runs, before he was dismissed leg before wicket (lbw) by Nathan Smith.[4] On making his debut, Drysdale said it was a great opportunity, but he was mindful of the cricketers in his team who had missed out, as several of them were very ill.[5] In the second innings, Drysdale top-scored for Northern Districts with 62 runs, but the team were all out for 161 runs.[4] With a target of just 54 runs to win the match, Wellington went on to win by nine wickets, with Drysdale taking the one wicket, that of opener Devan Vishvaka.[4]
References
- ^ "Peter Drysdale". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Peter Drysdale plays one hundred games in the Bay of Plenty Uniform". Bay of Plenty Cricket. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ a b c "Peter Drydale". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f "22nd Match, Whangarei, April 06 – 09, 2022". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Peter Drysdale makes first-class debut aged 33 with 19 ND players unavailable". Stuff. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Mahé Drysdale". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Former Shelley batsman Peter Drysdale joining Scholes in Drakes Huddersfield League from Spondon of Derbyshire Premier League". Examiner Live. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Cricket: Milestone for Drysdale". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Peter Drysdale one of three Bay of Plenty cricketers to record 100 games". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Peter Drysdale plays 100 games in BOP uniform". Sun Live. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Plunket Shield cancelled due to coronavirus measures, Wellington named champions". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Auckland win Plunket Shield after Covid-19 hits Northern Districts". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "Northern Districts' Covid-19 cases force Plunket Shield match to be canned, Auckland clinch title". Stuff. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Auckland secures Plunket Shield in style". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 8 April 2022.