Peter Eele

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Peter Eele


country = England
fullname = Peter James Eele
nickname =
living = true
dayofbirth = 27
monthofbirth = 1
yearofbirth = 1935
placeofbirth = Taunton, Somerset
countryofbirth = England
batting = Left-handed batsman
bowling =
role = Lower order batsman, wicketkeeper
club1 = Somerset
year1 = 1958-1965
type1 = First-class
debutdate1 = 31 May
debutyear1 = 1958
debutfor1 = Somerset
debutagainst1 = Sussex
lastdate1 = 21 June
lastyear1 = 1965
lastfor1 = Somerset
lastagainst1 = Cambridge University
type2 = List A
debutdate2 = 27 May
debutyear2 = 1964
debutfor2 = Somerset
debutagainst2 = Nottinghamshire
lastdate2 = 10 May
lastyear2 = 1969
lastfor2 = Devon
lastagainst2 = Hertfordshire
deliveries = balls
columns = 2
column1 = First-class
matches1 = 54
runs1 = 612
bat avg1 = 12.24
100s/50s1 = 1/-
top score1 = 103*
deliveries1 = -
wickets1 = -
bowl avg1 = -
fivefor1 = -
tenfor1 = -
best bowling1 = -
catches/stumpings1 = 87/19
column2 = List A
matches2 = 3
runs2 = 12
bat avg2 = 4.00
100s/50s2 = -/-
top score2 = 6
deliveries2 = -
wickets2 = -
bowl avg2 = -
fivefor2 = -
tenfor2 = -
best bowling2 = -
catches/stumpings2 = 4/-
date = 06 Jul
year = 2008
source = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3533/3533.html CricketArchive

Peter James Eele, born at Taunton, Somerset on January 27, 1935, was a cricketer who played for Somerset and later acted as an umpire in first-class matches in England.

Eele was a lower-order left-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. He was the reserve wicketkeeper to Harold Stephenson at Somerset in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his first-class cricket career was dictated largely by Stephenson's state of health. So 43 of Eele's 54 first-class matches came in two seasons: 1958, when Stephenson was injured for the second half of the season, and 1964, when Stephenson was able to play only three times. [cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3533/f_Batting_by_Season.html | title = First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Peter Eele |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2008-07-06] When Stephenson left the county somewhat unwillingly at the end of the 1964 season, Somerset recruited Geoff Clayton of Lancashire as his wicketkeeping replacement. Eele stayed as Clayton's deputy for a couple of seasons, but then left the staff.

Eele's batting was his weak point. He passed 40 in a first-class innings only once, though he then went on to make an unbeaten 103 against the Pakistan Eaglets team in 1963. [cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26171.html | title = Somerset v Pakistan Eaglets | date = 1963-06-19 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2008-07-06] As a wicketkeeper, he was "tidy and unshowy". [Cite book | title = "Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who" | author = David Foot and Ivan Ponting | edition = 1993 | publisher = Redcliffe Press | ISBN = 1 872971 23 7 | pages = p42 ]

After leaving Somerset, Eele played Minor Counties cricket for Devon. From 1981 to 1984 and then again from 1989 to 1990 he was on the first-class umpires list. [cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3533/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html | title = Peter Eele as Umpire in First-class Matches |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2008-07-06]

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