Peter Gatehouse
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| Full name | Peter Warlow Gatehouse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 May 1936 Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1957–1962 | Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 October 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Warlow Gatehouse (born 3 May 1936) is a former Welsh cricketer. Gatehouse was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan.
Gatehouse made his first-class debut for Glamorgan against Nottinghamshire at Stradey Park, Llanelli, in the 1957 County Championship. He made eighteen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Kent at the St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury.[1] A bowler, Gatehouse took 53 wickets in his nineteen first-class matches, at an average of 29.26.[2] His best bowling figures of 7/94 came against Middlesex at Lord's in 1958. He also took an additional three wickets in this match, giving him his only ten wicket match haul of his career.[3] He took a second five wicket haul against Somerset in the same season.[4] A tailend batsman, Gatehouse scored a total of 85 runs at a batting average of 5.66, with a high score of 20.[5]
While playing for Glamorgan, he studied at for a Ph.D. in pharmacy at Cardiff University. It was in this that he chose to pursue a career, thereby ending his first-class cricket career.[6]
References
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Peter Gatehouse". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Peter Gatehouse". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "Middlesex v Glamorgan, 1958 County Championship". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "Somerset v Glamorgan, 1958 County Championship". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Peter Gatehouse". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ Hignell, Dr. A.K. (December 2003). "Brief profile of Peter Gatehouse". Retrieved 26 October 2012.