# Peter Close

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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|          name = 
|             country = England
|            fullname =	Peter Alwen Close
|            nickname = 
|          birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|6|1|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Murree](/source/Murree), [Punjab Province](/source/Punjab_Province_(British_India)), <br>then India
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|2|16|1943|6|1|df=yes}}
|         death_place = [Hawkhurst](/source/Hawkhurst), [Kent](/source/Kent)
|            heightft = 
|          heightinch = 
|             heightm = 
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = Right-arm [off break](/source/off_break)
|                role = 
|              family =
|               club1 = [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club)
|               year1 = 1964–1965
|         clubnumber1 =
|               club2 = [Dorset](/source/Dorset_County_Cricket_Club)
|               year2 = 1963–1966
|         clubnumber2 =
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|            matches1 = 15
|               runs1 = 344
|            bat avg1 = 13.76
|           100s/50s1 = –/1
|          top score1 = 54
|         deliveries1 = 78
|            wickets1 = 1
|           bowl avg1 = 44.00
|            fivefor1 = –
|             tenfor1 = –
|       best bowling1 = 1/6
|  catches/stumpings1 = 14/–
|                date = 5 September
|                year = 2011
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11186.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Peter Alwen Close''' (1 June 1943 – 16 February 2025) was an English [cricket](/source/cricket)er. He was a right-handed [batsman](/source/Batsman_(cricket)) who bowled right-arm [off break](/source/off_break). He was born in [Murree](/source/Murree), [Punjab Province](/source/Punjab_Province_(British_India)), in the [British Raj](/source/British_Raj) (today in Pakistan). He was educated at [Haileybury and Imperial Service College](/source/Haileybury_and_Imperial_Service_College) in England.

While studying at [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University), Close made his [first-class](/source/first-class_cricket) debut for [Cambridge University Cricket Club](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club) against [Glamorgan](/source/Glamorgan_County_Cricket_Club) in 1964. He made fourteen further first-class appearances for the university, the last of which came against [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28592/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Peter Close|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref> In his fifteen first-class matches, he scored 344 runs at an [average](/source/batting_average_(cricket)) of 13.76, with a high score of 54.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28592/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Peter Close|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref> This score, which was his only first-class [fifty](/source/half_century), came against Glamorgan in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27540.html|title=Glamorgan v Cambridge University, 1965|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref>

Close also played [Minor counties](/source/Minor_counties_of_English_and_Welsh_cricket) cricket for [Dorset](/source/Dorset_County_Cricket_Club), making his debut for the county in the 1963 [Minor Counties Championship](/source/Minor_Counties_Championship) against [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire_County_Cricket_Club). He played Minor counties cricket for Dorset from 1963 to 1966, making 29 Minor Counties Championship appearances.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28592/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Peter Close|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref>

He died at [Hawkhurst](/source/Hawkhurst), [Kent](/source/Kent) on 16 February 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28592/28592.html|title=Peter Close at CricketArchive|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=14 March 2025}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11186.html Peter Close] at [ESPNcricinfo](/source/ESPNcricinfo)
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28592/28592.html Peter Close] at CricketArchive

{{DEFAULTSORT:Close, Peter}}
Category:1943 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:People from Murree
Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:English cricketers
Category:Cambridge University cricketers
Category:Dorset cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Punjab, Pakistan
Category:20th-century English sportsmen

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