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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ian_Peck > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ian_Peck.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Peck > Source revision: 1266585899 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English cricketer and rugby union footballer}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Ian Peck | country = England | fullname = Ian George Peck | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|10|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = [Great Staughton](/source/Great_Staughton), [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire), England | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = [Wicket-keeper](/source/Wicket-keeper) | family = | club4 = [Northamptonshire](/source/Northamptonshire_County_Cricket_Club) | year4 = 1980–1981 | club3 = [Combined Universities](/source/British_Universities_cricket_team) | year3 = 1980–1981 | club2 = Cambridge University | year2 = 1978–1984 | club1 = [Bedfordshire](/source/Bedfordshire_County_Cricket_Club) | year1 = {{nowrap|1976–1985}} | columns = 2 | column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket) | matches1 = 29 | runs1 = 507 | bat avg1 = 13.34 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 49[*](/source/not_out) | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 14/1 | column2 = [List A](/source/List_A_cricket) | matches2 = 9 | runs2 = 103 | bat avg2 = 20.60 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 31 | catches/stumpings2 = 2/0 | date = 24 September | year = 2011 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18866.html Cricinfo }} '''Ian George Peck''' (born 18 October 1957) is a former English [cricket](/source/cricket)er. Peck was a right-handed [batsman](/source/Batsman_(cricket)) who fielded as a [wicket-keeper](/source/wicket-keeper). He was born in [Great Staughton](/source/Great_Staughton), [Huntingdonshire](/source/Huntingdonshire), and educated at [Bedford School](/source/Bedford_School). Peck made his debut in [county cricket](/source/county_cricket) for [Bedfordshire](/source/Bedfordshire_County_Cricket_Club) in the 1976 [Minor Counties Championship](/source/Minor_Counties_Championship) against [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club). The following season he made his [List A](/source/List_A_cricket) debut for the county against [Northumberland](/source/Northumberland_County_Cricket_Club) in the [1977 Gillette Cup](/source/1977_Gillette_Cup).{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31986/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Ian Peck|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 September 2011}} Continuing to play [Minor counties](/source/Minor_counties_of_English_and_Welsh_cricket) cricket for Bedfordshire, Peck later attended [Magdalene College, Cambridge](/source/Magdalene_College%2C_Cambridge),''[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'' 1981, p. 636. making his [first-class](/source/first-class_cricket) debut in 1978 for [Cambridge University Cricket Club](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club) against [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club). He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University from 1978 to 1981, making 22 appearances, and captaining the university team in 1980 and 1981.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31986/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ian Peck|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 September 2011}} During this period he also made seven List A appearances for the [Combined Universities](/source/British_Universities_cricket_team) spread over the 1980 and 1981 [Benson & Hedges Cup](/source/Benson_%26_Hedges_Cup)s.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31986/List_A_Matches.html|title=List A Matches played by Ian Peck|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 September 2011}} In these matches, he scored 97 runs at an [average](/source/batting_average_(cricket)) of 32.33, with a high score of 31.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31986/a_Batting_by_Team.html|title=List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Ian Peck|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 September 2011}} During this period he also made a single first-class appearance for a combined [Oxford and Cambridge Universities](/source/Oxford_and_Cambridge_Universities_cricket_team) against the touring [Sri Lankans](/source/Sri_Lanka_national_cricket_team), as well as making two first-class appearances for [Northamptonshire](/source/Northamptonshire_County_Cricket_Club), making an appearance each in the [1980 County Championship](/source/1980_County_Championship) against [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club) and in the [1981 County Championship](/source/1981_County_Championship) against [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire_County_Cricket_Club). In 1984, Peck undertook studies once more at Cambridge University, making four further first-class appearances for the university in that season. In total, he made 26 first-class appearance for Cambridge University, scoring 483 runs at an average of 14.20, with a high score of 49 [not out](/source/not_out). Behind the [stumps](/source/stumps) he took 11 [catches](/source/catch_(cricket)).{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31986/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Ian Peck|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 September 2011}} He played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire until 1985, by which time he had made 33 Minor Counties Championship appearances and two [MCCA Knockout Trophy](/source/MCCA_Knockout_Trophy) appearances.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31986/Minor_Counties_Trophy_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Trophy Matches played by Ian Peck|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 September 2011}} He made a final List A appearance for Bedfordshire in the [1985 NatWest Trophy](/source/1985_NatWest_Trophy) against [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club). In this match he [captained](/source/captain_(cricket)) Bedfordshire, scoring a single run before being dismissed by [Kevin Curran](/source/Kevin_Curran_(cricketer)), with Gloucestershire winning by 141 runs.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/46/46136.html|title=Bedfordshire v Gloucestershire, 1985 NatWest Trophy|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 September 2011}} Peck was also a Cambridge blue at [rugby union](/source/rugby_union), captaining [Cambridge University R.U.F.C.](/source/Cambridge_University_R.U.F.C.) in the 1979 season, and came close to playing for the [England national rugby union team](/source/England_national_rugby_union_team) as a member of the squad during the [1980 Five Nations Championship](/source/1980_Five_Nations_Championship).{{cite news |last=James |first=Steve |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/10506541/Annual-Varsity-rugby-match-always-gives-me-the-Cambridge-double-Blue-blues.html |title=Annual Varsity rugby match always gives me the Cambridge double Blue blues |accessdate=13 December 2013 |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 December 2013}} After he left Cambridge, Peck taught at his old school, Bedford School.''Wisden'' 1985, p. 633. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=18866}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Peck, Ian}} Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Category:Bedfordshire cricket captains Category:British Universities cricketers Category:Cambridge University cricketers Category:Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players Category:English cricketers Category:English rugby union players Category:Northamptonshire cricketers Category:Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers Category:People educated at Bedford School Category:People from Great Staughton Category:Rugby union players from Cambridgeshire Category:Rugby union scrum-halves Category:Wicket-keepers Category:20th-century English sportsmen --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ian Peck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Peck) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Peck?action=history)). 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