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| Full name | Peter Warlow Gatehouse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 May 1936 Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1957–1962 | Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,26 October 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Warlow Gatehouse (born 3 May 1936) is a former Welsh cricketer and pharmacist. Gatehouse was a left-arm fast-medium bowler and tail-end right-handed batsman who played for Glamorgan from 1957 to 1962. He was born at Caerphilly,Glamorgan.
Gatehouse made his first-class debut for Glamorgan against Nottinghamshire at Stradey Park,Llanelli,in the 1957 County Championship. He made eighteen further first-class appearances for the county,the last of which came against Kent at the St Lawrence Ground,Canterbury. [1] A bowler,Gatehouse took 53 wickets in his nineteen first-class matches,at an average of 29.26. [2] His best bowling figures of 7/94 came against Middlesex at Lord's in 1958. [3] He also took an additional three wickets in this match,giving him the only ten-wicket match haul of his career. [4] He took a second five wicket haul against Somerset in the same season. [5] A tailend batsman,Gatehouse scored a total of 85 runs at a batting average of 5.66,with a high score of 20. [6]
While playing for Glamorgan,Gatehouse studied for a Ph.D. in pharmacy at Cardiff University. It was in this profession that he chose to pursue a career,thereby ending his first-class cricket career. [7] [3]