# Peter Pickering

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{{short description|English sportsman}}
''"Peter Pickering" was also the name of the man suspected of the [murder of Elsie Frost](/source/murder_of_Elsie_Frost).''
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{{Infobox football biography
|name        = Peter Pickering
|image       = 
|caption     = 
|fullname    = Peter Barlow Pickering
|birth_date  = {{birth date|1926|3|24|df=y}}
|birth_place = [New Earswick](/source/New_Earswick), England
|death_date  = {{death date and age|2006|11|21|1926|3|24|df=y}}
|death_place = [Cape Town](/source/Cape_Town), South Africa
|height      = 
|position    = [Goalkeeper](/source/Goalkeeper_(association_football))
|youthyears1 =
|youthclubs1 = New Earswick
|years1      = 1946–1948
|clubs1      = [York City](/source/York_City_F.C.)
|caps1       = 49
|goals1      = 0
|years2      = 1948–1951
|clubs2      = [Chelsea](/source/Chelsea_F.C.)
|caps2       = 27
|goals2      = 0
|years3      = 1951–1955
|clubs3      = [Kettering Town](/source/Kettering_Town_F.C.)
|caps3       = 
|goals3      = 
|years4      = 1955–1958
|clubs4      = [Northampton Town](/source/Northampton_Town_F.C.)
|caps4       = 86
|goals4      = 0
|totalcaps   = 162
|totalgoals  = 0
}}
'''Peter Barlow Pickering''' (24 March 1926 – 21 November 2006) was an English sportsman who played both [football](/source/association_football) and [cricket](/source/cricket).

==Career==

===Football career===
Born in [New Earswick](/source/New_Earswick), Pickering played as a [goalkeeper](/source/Goalkeeper_(association_football)) for New Earswick, [York City](/source/York_City_F.C.), [Chelsea](/source/Chelsea_F.C.), [Kettering Town](/source/Kettering_Town_F.C.) and [Northampton Town](/source/Northampton_Town_F.C.), making a total of 162 appearances in [the Football League](/source/the_Football_League).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player7/peterpickering.html|title=Profile|accessdate=15 September 2013|publisher=Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database}}</ref>

===Cricket career===
Pickering also played for [Northamptonshire](/source/Northamptonshire_County_Cricket_Club). He made a single first-class appearance, during the 1953 season, against [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire_County_Cricket_Club). From the tailend, Pickering scored 22 runs in the first innings and 37 in the second. Northamptonshire won the match by one wicket.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32062/32062.html|title=Profile|accessdate=15 September 2013|publisher=Cricket Archive}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:1926 births
Category:2006 deaths
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football goalkeepers
Category:York City F.C. players
Category:Chelsea F.C. players
Category:Kettering Town F.C. players
Category:Northampton Town F.C. players
Category:English Football League players
Category:English cricketers
Category:Northamptonshire cricketers
Category:Footballers from York
Category:20th-century English sportsmen

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