Ian Peebles

Ian Peebles

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = ENG
name = Ian Peebles
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Legbreak googly
tests = 13
test runs = 98
test bat avg = 10.88
test 100s/50s = -/-
test top score = 26
test balls = 2882
test wickets = 45
test bowl avg = 30.91
test 5s = 3
test 10s = -
test best bowling = 6/63
test catches/stumpings = 5/-
FCs = 251
FC runs = 2213
FC bat avg = 9.66
FC 100s/50s = -/2
FC top score = 58
FC balls = 42937
FC wickets = 923
FC bowl avg = 21.38
FC 5s = 62
FC 10s = 15
FC best bowling = 8/24
FC catches/stumpings = 172/-
debut date = 24 December
debut year = 1927
last date = 15 August
last year = 1931
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18488.html

Ian Alexander Ross Peebles (born January 20, 1908 in Aberdeen, Scotland, died February 28, 1980 in Speen, Buckinghamshire) was a cricketer who played for Oxford University, Middlesex, Scotland and England. After retiring from cricket he became a cricket writer, working as a journalist on The Sunday Times and as the author of many books on cricket.

Peebles had one of the strangest introductions to first-class cricket of any player. He was born in Aberdeen and came south to London as a teenager to take up a post as secretary to the cricket school run by the former South African Test player Aubrey Faulkner. He so impressed Faulkner and other observers, including Sir Pelham Warner, with his leg break and googly bowling that, when the amateurs were short of a team to play in the annual Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, Peebles was invited to make up the numbers. He took just one wicket in that game and scored only a few runs, and was not notably more successful in end-of-season festival matches at Scarborough and Folkestone. But he was then picked, ostensibly as "secretary to the captain" for the 1927-1928 MCC tour to South Africa, where he played in the first four Tests.

In 1928, Peebles played his first county matches for Middlesex and the following year, as a regular in the team, he took 120 wickets at less than 20 runs per wicket. He was at Oxford for only one season, 1930, but took 70 wickets for the university, including 13 in the Varsity match against Cambridge.

This form brought him into the England Test team for the fourth Test against Australia at Old Trafford in July 1930, where he discomfited the top Australian batsmen. Bill Woodfull left a ball that passed over the middle stump; the great Donald Bradman was all but bowled by Peebles first ball, was then dropped in the slips and was finally caught for 14; and Peebles' first three balls to Alan Kippax all produced appeals for leg before wicket. Reports of the match suggested Peebles could be the match-winner England had sought against the batsmanship of Bradman and his colleagues - Bradman wrote of Peebles a few months later::"When I got to the crease I found Peebles bowling extraordinarily well, and ... I may as well admit that for the first time in my life I was unable to detect a bowler's leg break from his "bosey" (googley). I watched Peebles as closely as I knew how, but there was no use. Neither by watching his hand nor the ball could I detect it, and definitely this day his bowling was too good for me. I had a most unhappy time!" [http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/bradman/scrapbooks/10/bsb10177.htm] But the success was relative: in the final Test of the summer at The Oval, Peebles bowled 71 overs and took six wickets for 204 but that was in the context of an Australian total of 695. He was picked as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931.

Peebles had returned successfully to South Africa with MCC in 1930-31 and played regularly against New Zealand in 1931. But under the strain of constant bowling, his leg break became less effective. He was picked for the final Test against Australia in 1934, but had to decline the invitation because of injury.

Across the 1930s, Peebles was an enthusiastic member of amateur tours to farflung places, but he played only intermittently for Middlesex until 1939, when he reappeared full-time to captain the side. But by then his bowling was used very sparingly, and he took only 49 wickets in the season. He came back after the Second World War for some matches up to 1948, but the loss of an eye during a wartime air raid curtailed his effectiveness.

A noted bon viveur and raconteur, Peebles in retirement was employed in the wine trade and then as a writer and journalist.

External links

* [http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/18488.html Cricinfo article on Ian Peebles]


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