About Peter Lever
Peter Lever was an English cricketer, who played in seventeen Tests and ten ODIs for England from 1970 to 1975. A fast-medium opening bowler, he took 41 wickets and was a handy lower-order batsman with a top score of 88 not out. Towards the end of his career, during a Test match against New Zealand, he almost killed the New Zealand Test debutant Ewen Chatfield with a bouncer. Lever played for Lancashire and Tasmania in a successful first-class career of 301 matches from 1960 until 1976, which yielded Lever 796 wickets and 3,534 runs. Lever also took his first Test five-wicket haul in the same match. Lever's domestic career continued until 1976 in first-class cricket, and until 1983 in List-A. Lever made 88 not out, his highest first-class score, in a Test match against India in 1971, sharing an 8th wicket stand of 168 with Ray Illingworth, still as of 2022 England's highest eighth-wicket stand against India in Test matches.
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