# Peter Delisle

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**Gustave Peter Sapenne Delisle** (25 December 1934 – 12 December 2014) was an English [cricketer](/source/Cricket). He played [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) for [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club) and [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_cricket_team) between 1954 and 1957.[1]

Delisle was educated at [Stonyhurst College](/source/Stonyhurst_College) and [Lincoln College, Oxford](/source/Lincoln_College,_Oxford).[2] He retired from cricket at the end of the 1957 season and joined the [Rifle Brigade](/source/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort's_Own)).[3] He then worked in finance in the [City of London](/source/City_of_London) until severe injuries from a road accident forced his early retirement in 1986. He took up a position at [Sunningdale School](/source/Sunningdale_School) in 1988.[4]

## References

1. ["Peter Delisle"](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12134.html). *ESPN Cricinfo*. Retrieved 30 March 2016.

1. ["Peter Delisle"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29034/29034.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 October 2025.

1. *[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)* 2015, p. 185.

1. ["St Kitts"](https://association.stonyhurst.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Stonyhurst-Association-Newsletter-310_July_2015.pdf). *Stonyhurst Association News*. July 2015.

## External links

- Obituary of Peter Delisle in [*The Shorter Wisden 2015: The Best Writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2015*](https://books.google.com/books?id=V317BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT228). Bloomsbury Publishing. 2015. p. 228. ISBN 9781472915214.

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