{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Peter Petherick | image = | caption = | fullname = Peter James Petherick | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1942|9|25}} | birth_place = Ranfurly, New Zealand | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|6|7|1942|9|25}} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia | club1 = Otago | year1 = {{nowrap|1975/76–1977/78}} | club2 = Wellington | year2 = {{nowrap|1978/79–1980/81}} | international = true | internationalspan = 1976–1977 | country = New Zealand | testdebutagainst = Pakistan | testdebutdate = 9 October | testdebutyear = 1976 | testcap = 136 | lasttestdate = 25 February | lasttestagainst = Australia | lasttestyear = 1977 | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm offbreak | columns = 3 | column1 = Test | matches1 = 6 | runs1 = 34 | bat avg1 = 4.85 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 13 | deliveries1 = 1,305 | wickets1 = 16 | bowl avg1 = 42.56 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 3/90 | catches/stumpings1= 4/– | column2 = FC | matches2 = 52 | runs2 = 200 | bat avg2 = 5.88 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 19* | deliveries2 = 4,625 | wickets2 = 189 | bowl avg2 = 24.44 | fivefor2 = 9 | tenfor2 = 2 | best bowling2 = 9/93 | catches/stumpings2= 27/– | column3 = LA | matches3 = 2 | runs3 = 2 | bat avg3 = 2.00 | 100s/50s3 = 0/0 | top score3 = 2 | deliveries3 = 74 | wickets3 = 1 | bowl avg3 = 53.00 | fivefor3 = 0 | tenfor3 = 0 | best bowling3 = 1/39 | catches/stumpings3= 1/– | date = 1 April | year = 2017 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38122.html Cricinfo }} '''Peter James Petherick''' (25 September 1942 – 7 June 2015) was a New Zealand cricketer who represented New Zealand in six Test cricket matches between October 1976 and March 1977 as an off-spinner. He is one of two New Zealand bowlers to achieve a hat-trick in Test matches. He is one of only three players, along with Maurice Allom and Damien Fleming, to have taken a hat-trick on Test debut.
==Domestic career== Making his first-class debut at 33,<ref name="Cricinfo">{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/story/885067.html |title=Former NZ offspinner Petherick dies aged 72 |accessdate=8 June 2015 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> he played for Otago from 1975–76 to 1977–78, and for Wellington from 1978–79 to 1980–81. In his fifth match he took 9 for 93 in the first innings against Northern Districts,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/35/35816.html Otago v Northern Districts 1975-76]</ref> and he finished the 1975–76 season with 42 wickets at 20.13.
==After cricket== After his retirement from cricket, Petherick took up lawn bowls, and skippered a two-man team to the final of the New Zealand national bowls championship in 2006.<ref name="TVNZ_645002">{{cite news |url=http://tvnz.co.nz/content/645002?cfb=3 |title=Upsets at bowls champs |date=3 January 2006 |work=One Sport |accessdate=2 November 2011}}</ref> He died in Perth, Australia, on 7 June 2015.<ref>[https://au.sports.yahoo.com/a/28373966/off-spinner-peter-petherick-dies/ NZ Newswire via Yahoo!7 sports 8 June 2015 Off spinner Peter Petherick dies] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150608173408/https://au.sports.yahoo.com/a/28373966/off-spinner-peter-petherick-dies/ |date=8 June 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Former New Zealand spinner Peter Petherick dies at 72|url=https://news.yahoo.com/former-zealand-spinner-peter-petherick-dies-72-202445620.html|accessdate=9 June 2015|work=Yahoo! News|agency=Associated Press|date=9 June 2015}}</ref>
==See also== * List of Test cricket hat-tricks
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=38122}} * [http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/other-sport/177227/greatest-moments-otago-sport-number-54 "Greatest moments in Otago sport, number 54: Petherick bamboozles the Pakistanis"] ''Otago Daily Times'', 12 September 2011.
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