Peter Carlstein

Peter Carlstein
Peter Carlstein in 1963
Personal information
Full name Peter Rudolph Carlstein
Born (1938-10-28) 28 October 1938
Klerksdorp, South Africa
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Leg spin
Role Batsman
International information
National side
Test debut 28 February 1958 v Australia
Last Test 24 January 1964 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1954–1958 Orange Free State
1958–1972 Transvaal
1964–1967 Natal
1967–1980 Rhodesia
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA
Matches 8 148 14
Runs scored 190 7554 369
Batting average 14.61 31.60 36.90
100s/50s 0 9/46 1/0
Top score 42 229 167*
Balls bowled 788
Wickets 9
Bowling average 53.33
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3–37
Catches/stumpings 3/0 82/0 0/0
Source: Cricket Archive, 23 December 2010

Peter Rudolph Carlstein (born 28 October 1938 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal) is a former South African cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman in eight Tests from 1958 to 1964.

Carlstein made his first-class debut at the age of 16 for Orange Free State against Natal at Bloemfontein in 1954-55; in the second innings he scored 54 and added 161 for the seventh wicket with his captain, Stephen Hanson.[1] Three years later, still in his teens, he made his Test debut in the Fifth Test against Australia in 1957-58, scoring 32 in the first innings batting at number eight.[2]

He toured England in 1960, scoring 980 runs in 23 first-class matches at an average of 29.69, with a top score of 151 against Hampshire.[3] He played all five Tests, but scored only 119 runs, making his top Test score of 42 in the Fifth Test at The Oval.[4]

He played in the First and Fourth Tests in Australia in 1963-64, making 37 in the Fourth Test in Adelaide, which South Africa won.[5] While the team was in New Zealand in late February 1964, he received the news that his wife and three children had died in a motor accident, and returned to South Africa immediately.[6]

Carlstein continued to play first-class cricket until 1979-80, when he was 41, 25 seasons after his first match. His highest score was 229 for Transvaal against the International Cavaliers in 1962-63, which was also his most successful season, with 852 runs at 71.00 including two other centuries. He was Rhodesian Player of the Year 1967-68.

After his first-class career ended in the early 1980s he moved to Perth in Western Australia, where he played and then coached at the Midland-Guildford club.

According to Wally Grout, Carlstein was "a descendant of a European royal family".[7]B This relationship with the Swedish Royal Family was the result of a joke played on him by his team mates, of whom my late husband was one. They had a conversation in the dressing room as to where their surnames came from. Peter made the suggestion that his surname came from King CARL Gustav of Sweden who had married a Princess of STEIN giving him the name of Carlstein. The next day when they all gathered to receive telegrams wishing them well, Eddie passed one to Peter who looked at it and said 'who the Hell is Carl Gustav"? "Your relation" they gleefully replied. The following day when he came out to bat, Wally Grout, who had heard of this, leapt out from behind the wicket and greeted Peter with "Good morning your Royal Highness".

References

  1. ↑ "Orange Free State v Natal 1954-55". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 January 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ "South Africa v Australia, Port Elizabeth 1957-58". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 January 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ Wisden 1961, pp. 269, 285.
  4. ↑ Wisden 1961, pp. 302-3.
  5. ↑ Wisden 1965, pp. 836-37.
  6. ↑ Trevor Goddard, Caught in the Deep, Vision Media, East London, 1988, p. 18.
  7. ↑ Wally Grout, My Country's Keeper, Pelham, London, 1965, p. 110.
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