Ted Peate

Edmund ("Ted") Peate (born 2 March 1855 in Holbeck, Leeds, Yorkshire, England; died 11 March 1900, Newlay, Horsforth, Yorkshire, England) was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England. Peate was one of the most famous slow bowlers of his day.

Overview

His career, which lasted from 1879 to 1890, was exceptionally brilliant while it lasted, but very short. Earning a place in the Yorkshire team in 1879 he rose in the following season to the top of the tree, and there he remained till the end of 1884, succeeding Alfred Shaw as the representative slow-bowler of England. There ought to have been many more years of good work before him, but he put on weight to a great extent, and in the summer of 1886 it became evident that his day was over. Without using a harsh word, it may fairly be said that he would have lasted longer if he had ordered his life more carefully. He never entirely lost his skill, as a bowler, and even up to the last year or two he was successful in club cricket in and around Leeds. He was reckoned by Wisden to be, without a doubt, a great bowler when he was at his bear, though it is true that he was fortunate at the outset of his career in playing in very wet seasons. He did not set store on a big break, but on most wickets he could make the ball do enough to beat the bat, and his pitch was a marvel of accuracy. He has had brilliant successors in the Yorkshire eleven in Bobby Peel and Wilfred Rhodes, but many batsmen- Billy Murdoch among the number-who met him in his prime are of opinion that as a left-handed slow bowler he has never been equalled. The immediate cause of his death was pneumonia, but his health had been in a bad state for some time.

Related Topics:
1879 - 1890 - 1884 - Alfred Shaw - 1886 - Bobby Peel - Wilfred Rhodes - Billy Murdoch - Pneumonia

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