Charlie Peach
Personal information
Full name
Charles William Peach
Born(1900-01-03)3 January 1900
Egerton, Kent
Died27 February 1977(1977-02-27) (aged 77)
Coxheath, Kent
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-fast
RoleBowler
RelationsAlan Peach (cousin)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1930–1931Kent
FC debut24 May 1930 Kent v Yorkshire
Last FC8 July 1931 Kent v Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 19
Runs scored 108
Batting average 7.20
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 20
Balls bowled 2,561
Wickets 30
Bowling average 27.66
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/38
Catches/stumpings 9/–
Source: CricInfo, 22 October 2018

Charles William Peach (3 January 1900 – 27 February 1977), known as Charlie Peach, was an English first-class cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club in 1930 and 1931. He was born in Egerton in Kent in 1900.[1]

Peach was born at Egerton in Kent, the son of Robert and Eliza Peach. His father was a gamekeeper and came from a family with a cricketing tradition.[2]

Peach was a ground bowler and played for The Mote Cricket Club in Maidstone where one of his cousins was the groundsman.[2] He was "one of the mainstays" of the club's bowling attack for a number of years,[3] and good bowling throughout the late 1920s brought him to the attention of Kent. He made his first-class debut for the county in 1930 against Yorkshire, taking six wickets, but his bowling action was queried throughout his short first-class career and, after playing 17 matches in 1930, he played in only two matches in 1931, although he played for the county Second XI throughout the season.[1][2][3] Peach was described in his Wisden obituary as bowling "right-arm, on the quick side of medium" with the ability to "produce a sharp off-break".[3] Despite the suspicions raised about his bowling action he was never no-balled as a result of it in his brief first-class career.[3]

Peach married Dorothy Barker in 1937 and worked as a gamekeeper.[2] He died at Coxheath near Maidstone in 1977 aged 77.[4] His cousin, Alan Peach, made over 300 appearances for Surrey between 1919 and 1931.[2][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Charlie Peach, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939, pp.130–131. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-07-01.)
  3. 1 2 3 4 Peach, Charles William, Obituaries in 1980, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1980. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  4. ↑ Charles Peach, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  5. ↑ Alan Peach, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-22.

Charlie Peach at ESPNcricinfo


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