About Peter Brayshay
Lived 1916 – 2004 (aged 87). Peter Brayshay was a British cricketer.
Peter Beldon Brayshay (14 October 1916 – 6 July 2004) was an English first-class cricketer, who played two games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1952.
He was born in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and was a right-handed batsman, who scored 23 runs at 5.75, and a right arm fast bowler who took four wickets at 55.75. He made his Yorkshire debut against Glamorgan in Swansea in 1952, and played in the next game against Derbyshire, where he recorded both his highest score of 13, and his best bowling figures of 2 for 48.
He played on several occasions for Yorkshire's Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship from 1938 to 1951.
Brayshay died aged 87, in July 2004, in Leeds.
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Who was Peter Brayshay?
English County cricketer (1916-2004)
When was Peter Brayshay born?
Peter Brayshay was born on 14 October 1916.
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Peter Brayshay died on 6 July 2004.
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Peter Brayshay was a cricketer.
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Peter Brayshay was British.
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