Peter Watts (cricketer, born 1938)
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| Full name | Peter David Watts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
31 March 1938 Henlow, Bedfordshire, England |
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| Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg-break and googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Brother, Jim Watts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958–1966 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 18 June 1958 Northamptonshire v Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 31 July 1967 Nottinghamshire v Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 22 May 1963 Northamptonshire v Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last List A | 13 May 1967 Nottinghamshire v Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 21 May 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter David Watts (born 31 March 1938) is an English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire between 1958 and 1967. He also played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire and Shropshire. He was born at Henlow, Bedfordshire and educated at Bedford Modern School.
Watts was a left-handed lower middle order batsman and a right-arm leg-break and googly bowler who played at a time when leg-spin was very much out of favour in English county cricket. He was also a fine fieldsman, taking 174 catches in his 183 first-class matches.
He is the elder brother of Jim Watts, who played alongside him for Northamptonshire as a left-handed middle order batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler and who was also later a successful captain of the team.
Having played Minor Counties cricket for Bedfordshire since 1955 and for Northamptonshire's second eleven since 1956, Peter Watts made his first-class debut in 1958 in a couple of matches and then played in almost half the county's games in 1959, though his bowling opportunities were limited by Northamptonshire's reliance on the two Australian spin bowlers, George Tribe, who retired at the end of the 1959 season, and Jack Manning. In fact, in his first match of the season, against Warwickshire, he was the fourth spin bowler called on after Tribe, Manning and slow left-arm spinner Michael Allen, but took five wickets for just 30 runs, all five wickets coming in a spell of 53 balls at a cost of just 10 runs. He improved on these bowling figures in the match against Cambridge University with six second innings wickets for 73 runs and he also made his maiden 50 in this game.
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