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Peter Drysdale (cricketer)

Peter Drysdale
Personal information
Full name
Rupert Peter Owens Drysdale
Born (1989-01-07) 7 January 1989 (age 35)
Forest Row, East Sussex, England
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
RoleBatter
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2009/10–presentBay of Plenty
2021/22–2023/24Northern Districts
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 1 7
Runs scored 67 58
Batting average 33.50 19.33
100s/50s 0/1 0/0
Top score 62 28
Balls bowled 78 240
Wickets 1 6
Bowling average 34.00 39.83
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/11 2/37
Catches/stumpings 0/– 3/–
Source: Cricinfo, 1 October 2024

Rupert Peter Owens Drysdale (born 7 January 1989) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for Bay of Plenty and Northern Districts.[1][2] After playing for the Bay of Plenty team in the Hawke Cup since the 2009/10 cricket season,[3] Drysdale made his first-class cricket debut for Northern Districts in April 2022, in the penultimate match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season.[4] Due to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the team, seven players made their first-class debuts for the team in the same match, with Drysdale doing so at the age of 33.[5]

Personal life

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Drysdale was born in Forest Row, East Sussex, England in 1989,[3] and now lives in Tauranga, New Zealand.[5] He is the younger brother of New Zealand rower Mahé Drysdale,[5] who has won two gold medals and a bronze at three different editions of the Olympic Games.[6]

Career

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Drysdale has played cricket in England, featuring for the second XI for both Derbyshire and Leicestershire during the 2014 and 2015 summers respectively.[3] In 2014, Drysdale also played in the Huddersfield Cricket League in West Yorkshire, England, for Scholes cricket team.[7]

In October 2014, Drysdale became the eleventh cricketer for Bay of Plenty to play in fifty matches for the team.[8] Five years later, in December 2019, Drysdale was only the third cricketer for the team to feature in one hundred matches for the side.[9] In his 100 matches for the team, Drysdale had scored more than 3,000 runs, including three centuries, and had taken 24 wickets.[10] Drysdale had also captained the team during five seasons of the Hawke Cup.[10]

Drysdale was originally scheduled to make his first-class debut for Northern Districts against Auckland in March 2020, during the 2019–20 Plunket Shield season.[5] However, the final two rounds of that tournament were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]

In April 2022, Northern Districts' penultimate match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season, against Central Districts, was abandoned on the fourth and final day after multiple cases of COVID-19 were reported within their squad.[12] Six days later, Northern Districts played their final round-robin match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season, against Wellington.[4] Due to the number of COVID-19 cases within the squad,[13] Northern Districts had nineteen players unavailable for their final match of the season.[5] Drysdale, at the age of 33, made his first-class cricket debut in the match.[5] Also making their debuts alongside Drysdale were Ben Pomare, Chris Swanson, Fergus Lellman, Josh Brown, Sam Varcoe and Sandeep Patel.[4] It was the highest number of debutants in the same match for Northern Districts since their inaugural first-class fixture in 1956.[14] In the first innings of the match, Drysdale only scored five runs, before he was dismissed leg before wicket (lbw) by Nathan Smith.[4] On making his debut, Drysdale said it was a great opportunity, but he was mindful of the cricketers in his team who had missed out, as several of them were very ill.[5] In the second innings, Drysdale top-scored for Northern Districts with 62 runs, but the team were all out for 161 runs.[4] With a target of just 54 runs to win the match, Wellington went on to win by nine wickets, with Drysdale taking the one wicket, that of opener Devan Vishvaka.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Peter Drysdale". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Peter Drysdale plays one hundred games in the Bay of Plenty Uniform". Bay of Plenty Cricket. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Peter Drydale". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "22nd Match, Whangarei, April 06 – 09, 2022". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Peter Drysdale makes first-class debut aged 33 with 19 ND players unavailable". Stuff. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Mahé Drysdale". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Former Shelley batsman Peter Drysdale joining Scholes in Drakes Huddersfield League from Spondon of Derbyshire Premier League". Examiner Live. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  8. ^ "Cricket: Milestone for Drysdale". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Peter Drysdale one of three Bay of Plenty cricketers to record 100 games". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Peter Drysdale plays 100 games in BOP uniform". Sun Live. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  11. ^ "Plunket Shield cancelled due to coronavirus measures, Wellington named champions". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  12. ^ "Auckland win Plunket Shield after Covid-19 hits Northern Districts". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  13. ^ "Northern Districts' Covid-19 cases force Plunket Shield match to be canned, Auckland clinch title". Stuff. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  14. ^ "Auckland secures Plunket Shield in style". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 8 April 2022.