Peter Raymond Sleep was born on 4 May 1957 and is a former Australian cricketer who played 14 Test matches for Australia between 1979 and 1990.
30 Facts About Peter Sleep
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However, Peter Sleep was part of an Australian generation of spinners with bowling averages above 40, including Tom Hogan, Murray Bennett and Tony Mann, and the cricket website Cricinfo summed up his career as a "relatively anodyne slow bowler".
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Peter Sleep scored 363 runs at summer at an average of 40 and took 15 wickets at 31.46.
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Peter Sleep had scored almost 600 runs at an average of more than 35 and taken 42 wickets at 23 runs each in the Shield.
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Peter Sleep was voted the Sheffield Shield player of the year.
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Peter Sleep ended the summer having scored 657 runs at 32 and taken 47 wickets at 27.
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Peter Sleep was one of three spinners in the squad, the others being Jim Higgs and Bruce Yardley.
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Peter Sleep began the Indian tour slowly but took five wickets against South Zone.
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Peter Sleep does have the happy knack of taking wickets with bad balls, but there are doubts about his ability to bowl tightly enough against batsmen who were brought up playing spin bowling.
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Peter Sleep did not achieve this but was selected in the team for the 4th test, where he took no wickets but scored 64 in Australia's second innings, helping Australia draw.
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Peter Sleep took part in two crucial partnerships: 76 with Dav Whatmore and 51 with Geoff Dymock.
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Bruce Yardley's return from illness saw Peter Sleep relegated to 12th man for the fifth test.
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Peter Sleep was next used in the sixth test, taking no wickets and making four runs, though he did suffer stomach cramps throughout the game.
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On his return to Australia, Peter Sleep was unable to force himself back into the test side at home or in the tour of Pakistan, the selectors preferring to select Ray Bright, Graeme Beard and Jim Higgs.
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Peter Sleep was replaced in the third test by Terry Alderman.
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Peter Sleep took one first class wicket on tor with an average of 246.00.
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Peter Sleep was dropped from the South Australian side for a time.
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In September 1983 Peter Sleep said he might have to retire or move interstate if he could not secure a guaranteed income from playing cricket.
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Peter Sleep credited this in part to the coaching of John Inverarity.
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Greg Matthews suffered a drop in form after returning home from India and Peter Sleep was recalled for the second test side.
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Peter Sleep took no wickets but his first innings knock of 39 was Australia's second highest score and helped them to a rare victory.
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Peter Sleep made 775 runs that summer at 40.78 and took 32 wickets at 46.21.
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Peter Sleep kept his place in the Australian side on the 1988 tour of Pakistan.
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Peter Sleep was picked in the second test and took two wickets in the first innings.
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Peter Sleep was a regular league professional in England and towards the end of his career was captain of Lancashire 2nd XI.
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Peter Sleep captained and coached the Lancashire 2nd XI to a championship where he worked with a young Andrew Flintoff.
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Peter Sleep was back in the team in December 1991 after some strong performances at domestic level.
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South Australian coach Peter Sleep Philpott said ""Peter Sleep's future Shield career will now depend on whether he's good enough to bowl leg-spinners at this level and get results.
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In more recent years, Peter Sleep was captain-coach of Yahl Cricket Club in the Mount Gambier District Cricket Association and has recently transferred to Tea Tree Gully Cricket Club in the South Australian Grade Cricket League.
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Peter Sleep was the proprietor of a hotel named "The Wickets" in Rishton, Lancashire until 2009.