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| Full name | Peter Bennetts Truscott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1941-08-14)14 August 1941 Pahiatua, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 September 2025(2025-09-01) (aged 84) Taupō, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 105) | 12 February 1965 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1958/58–1960/61 | Southland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1961/62 | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964/65–1965/66 | Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Bennetts Truscott (14 August 1941 – 1 September 2025) was a New Zealand cricketer who played one Test match against Pakistan in 1965.[1]
Cricket career
Truscott was a right-handed batsman who had a brief first-class career, lasting just five years. After having played for Southland and Otago age-group and B sides, he played three first-class matches for Canterbury without great success in 1961–62, and in the next two seasons played only for the New Zealand Under-23 side in one match each season. In 1963–64, he scored 165 when opening the batting for the Under-23s against Auckland,[2] and this remained his only first-class century.
Described during his career as "one of the most elegant and forceful stroke-makers in New Zealand cricket", Truscott played regularly in 1964–65 and 1965–66 for Wellington.[3] In February 1965 he scored 45 and 50 at number three against Otago, taking part in second-wicket partnerships of 84 and 98 with Bruce Murray,[4] and he was selected for the Third Test against Pakistan at Christchurch that followed a few days later. Opening the batting, he scored 3 and 26,[5][6] but was not picked for the New Zealand team to tour India, Pakistan and England in 1965.[7] He played for a New Zealand Cricket Council President's XI against the touring MCC in 1965–66,[8] but played no more first-class cricket after the end of the season.
Later life and death
In October 1966, Truscott and his family moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he had been transferred in his work as a bank accountant.[3] Later he returned to New Zealand and ran a hotel in Nelson, then a motel in Whangārei, and also worked in the real estate business. He retired to live with his wife Sue in Orewa, a suburb of Auckland.[7]
Truscott died in Taupō on 1 September 2025, at the age of 84.[9][10]
See also
References
- ^ "Peter Truscott". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "Auckland v New Zealand Under-23s 1963-64". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Truscott Going to Aust". Press: 11. 27 May 1966.
- ^ "Otago v Wellington 1964-65". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ^ Wisden 1966, pp. 843–844.
- ^ "3rd Test, Christchurch, February 12 – 16, 1965, Pakistan tour of New Zealand". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ a b Alderson, Andrew (13 March 2018). "New Zealand Cricket's One Test Wonders: Peter Truscott". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ "New Zealand Cricket Council President's XI v MCC 1965-66". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "Peter Truscott". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Peter Bennetts Truscott". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
External links
- Peter Truscott at ESPNcricinfo
