deliveries columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling country club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 30 0 2 8/0 3/0 1971 & ndash ; 1972 2008 25 may 1947 0 - right arm medium wales worcestershire 0 - right-handed peter stimpson peter john stimpson aberfan , glamorgan , wales fc la http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/33/33043/33043.html cricketarchive 1947 5 25 yes 1,327 236 0 - 1/9 0/1 30 24 peter stimpson

peter stimpson

peter john stimpson -lrb- born 25 may 1947 -rrb- is a former welsh cricketer who played first-class and list a cricket for worcestershire in 1971 and 1972 .
stimpson was playing for worcestershire 's second xi as early as 1963 , aged just 16 , but it was almost eight years before he made his first-team debut , playing against oxford university at the university parks in may 1971 .
he opened the batting , but in his only innings managed just 11 .
however , he had several good innings later in the season , including the only first-class century of his career : 103 against glamorgan at worcester .
he immediately followed this up with knocks of 88 and 42 not out against warwickshire at edgbaston .
stimpson had ended 1971 with 787 first-class runs at 27.13 , but he suffered a run drought in early 1972 , repeatedly being dismissed for very small scores .
he did make 52 against surrey in mid-may , but it was not enough to prevent his return to the second xi , and it was july before he re-established himself in the first team .
again he had a run of failures , but 88 in the county championship against kent brought him out of it , and 52 against essex in the john player league -lrb- his only list a half-century -rrb- gave cause for further hope .
however , despite one more half-century -lrb- 66 versus nottinghamshire -rrb- by the end of the year he was struggling for runs once more , and 1972 was to be his second and last season of first-team county cricket .
although stimpson 's career in major cricket had ended , in the mid-1970s he appeared on several occasions for zambia in east african tournaments , and in august 1976 produced an eye-catching performance , hitting 89 and 128 * as an opener as zambia beat tanzania .
