Peter Toohey

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Peter Toohey Australia (Aus)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	-
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	15	5
Runs scored	893	105
Batting average	31.89	52.50
100s/50s	1/7	-/1
Top score	122	54*
Balls bowled	2	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	9/-	-/-
As of 12 December 2005 Source: Cricinfo.com

Peter Michael Toohey (born April 20, 1954, Blayney, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 15 Tests and 5 ODIs from 1977 to 1979.

Peter Toohey was one of the cricketers who came to the fore when the bulk of Australia's top cricketers defected to Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. During that defection period, Peter Toohey was probably the mainstay of the Australian batting lineup, along with Graeme Yallop and Graeme Wood.

During his prime playing years in the Australian Test team, some media commentators referred to Peter Toohey as "Australia's master batsman", such was Toohey's pivotal role in the Australian Test team during the absence of the defecting World Series players.

When the World Series cricketers returned to mainstream Test cricket to reclaim their places in the Australian Test team, most of those players, who had sustained Australian cricket during the World Series years, were unable to retain their places in the Test side. Among those who did retain their places were Peter Toohey and Graeme Wood.

Peter Toohey thereafter lost his place in the Australian Test team after a series of poor performances. Some commentator's believed that Toohey's batting stance was too rigid, in the sense that he tended to lock his knees back, which hindered his mobility.

Whilst the team of cricketers, who manned the Australian cricket team during the World Series period, might have produced few of the game's greats, Australian cricket fans, who remember that period, will always remember Peter Toohey as Australia's master batsman of that short era.