Peter Truscott

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Peter Truscott
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Peter Truscott
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling type -
Tests First-class
Matches 1 18
Runs scored 29 904
Batting average 14.50 25.82
100s/50s 0/0 1/4
Top score 26 165
Balls bowled - 204
Wickets - 2
Bowling average - 48.50
5 wickets in innings - 0
10 wickets in match - 0
Best bowling - 2/60
Catches/stumpings 1/- 10/-

Test debut: 12 February 1965
Last Test: 12 February 1965
Source: Cricinfo

Peter Bennetts Truscott, born at Pahiatua, Manawatu, New Zealand on 14 August 1941, was a cricketer who played one Test for New Zealand in 1965.

Truscott was a right-handed batsman who had a brief first-class career, lasting just five years. He played three matches for Canterbury without great success in 1961-62, but in the next two seasons played only for the New Zealand Under-23 side in one match each season. In 1963-64, he scored 165 when opening the batting for the Under-23s against Auckland, and this remained his only first-class century.

For two seasons from 1964-65, Truscott played regularly but unspectacularly for Wellington, and in February 1965 he was unexpectedly called up for the third Test against Pakistan at Christchurch. He scored 3 and 26, but was not picked for the New Zealand team to tour India, Pakistan and England in 1965 and, after another modest season for Wellington, he retired.