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Full name Peter Raymond Sleep
Born May 4, 1957, Penola, South Australia
Current age 51 years 164 days
Major teams Australia,South Australia
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Other Coach
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
14
21
1
483
90
24.15
1323
36.50
0
3
35
0
4
0
First-class
175
285
50
8201
182
34.89
15
40
104
1
List A
33
30
5
956
109
38.24
1
4
12
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
14
23
2982
1397
31
5/72
5/99
45.06
2.81
96.1
1
1
0
First-class
175
28063
14299
363
8/133
39.39
3.05
77.3
9
0
List A
33
168
177
4
2/58
2/58
44.25
6.32
42.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne, Mar 10-15, 1979 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne, Jan 12-16, 1990 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1976 - 1994
List A span
1978/79 - 1992/93
Profile
Legspinner Peter Sleep was one of the many relatively anodyne slow bowlers given a chance before Shane Warne arrived. He was rather innocuous at Test level, as a strike rate of a wicket every 96 balls suggests. He did win an Ashes Test, though, at Sydney in 1986-87, taking his only five-for in the second innings of a match better remembered for Peter Taylor's debut exploits. Sleep, who was wittily nicknamed "Sounda", also made three Test fifties, and was a Lancashire League regular for many years, before becoming captain and then coach of Lancashire's 2nd XI.
Rob Smyth
