Peter John Wales is a former English

English people

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. Wales was a right-handed batsman

Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...

 who bowled right-arm medium pace

Seam bowling

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. He was born at Hove

Hove

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, Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

.

Wales made a single first-class

First-class cricket

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 appearance for Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

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 against Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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 at Manor Sports Ground, Worthing

Manor Sports Ground

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 in 1951. In Hampshire's first-innings, Wales took the wickets of Jimmy Gray

Jimmy Gray (cricketer)

James 'Jimmy' Roy Gray is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire.Gray was a right-handed batsman and passed 2000 runs in a season on 3 occasions...

, Leo Harrison

Leo Harrison

Leo Harrison is a former English cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1939-1966. Harrison played 396 first class games, 387 of which were for Hampshire...

 and Derek Shackleton

Derek Shackleton

Derek Shackleton was a Hampshire and England bowler. He took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket, but only played in seven Tests for England. As of 2007, he has the seventh-highest tally of first-class wickets, and the most first-class wickets of any player who...

 for the cost of 12 runs from nine overs

Over (cricket)

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. He opened the batting in Sussex's first-innings, scoring 29 runs before being bowled by Charles Knott

Charles Knott

Charles James Knott was an English cricketer. Knott was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off-break and right-arm medium pace.-Early life:...

. In Hampshire's second-innings, he took the wickets of Alan Rayment

Alan Rayment

Alan William Harrington Rayment is a former English cricketer. Rayment was a right-handed middle-order batsman and all but one of his first-class appearances were for Hampshire....

 and Richard Carty

Richard Carty

Richard Arthur Carty was an English cricketer. Carty was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium....

 for the cost of just one run from four overs. He ended Sussex's second-innings unbeaten

Not out

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 on 9, with Sussex winning by 10 wickets. Despite a strong showing in the match, this was Wales' only major appearance for Sussex.

External links

• Peter Wales at ESPNcricinfo
• Peter Wales at CricketArchive
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