Robert Peel was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire between 1883 and 1897. Primarily a left-arm spin bowler, Peel was also an effective left-handed batsman who played in the middle order. Between 1884 and 1896, he was regularly selected to represent England, playing 20 Test matches in which he took 101 wickets. He was suspended by Yorkshire for drunkenness during a match in 1897. In later years, Peel became the landlord of a public house and worked in a mill. He died in 1941 at the age of 84.
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Robert Peel was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire between 1883 and 1897. Primarily a left-arm spin bowler, Peel was also an effective left-handed batsman who played in the middle order. Between 1884 and 1896, he was regularly selected to represent England, playing 20 Test matches in which he took 101 wickets. He was suspended by Yorkshire for drunkenness during a match in 1897. Peel continued to play and coach cricket for most of his life and in later years became associated with Yorkshire once again. He died in 1941 at the age of 84. His obituary in Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack stated: ‘Peel attaining real distinction in bowling years before Peate attaining his place as a batsman and fielder. He had occasional success with the ball, for example taking 87 in the match against Gloucestershire in 1884, which did not play for Peate, who was not allowed to play in that match. In 1894–95 he became the first player to fail to score in four successive Test innings. He bowled England to victory after they had followed on in Australia in 1894-95 and took six for 23 in his final Test. In 1896, his best season in county cricket, he recorded the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets, and made his highest first- class score of 210. Peel was very popular and admirers often entertained him socially; he became well known for liking alcohol.
His death in 1941 was announced by the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, where he was a first-team coach and landlord. He is buried in Churwell, a village close to Morley, on 12 February 1857. He played with increasing frequency for the Chur well cricket team, and by 1882 was part of the Yorkshire Colts. At the time, Edmund Peate was the first-choice left- armspin bowler in the Yorkshire team. He took nine wickets in the game, including five for 83 in the second innings, against Surrey at Sheffield on 10 July 1882. Peel played regularly alongside Peate between 18 83 and 1886. In five seasons he took 163 wickets for Yorkshire and only took more than 50 first-Class wickets once before 1887. In 1897, Peel said he slipped when fielding, but Hirst later recalled that he came on the field drunk and when asked to leave, bowled a ball in the wrong direction. Decades later, a widely circulated story suggested that Peel urinated on the pitch before being sent away. The story is unlikely, and attribute it to a misunderstanding by its reporter. He never played for the county again. In later years, Peel became the landlord of a public house and worked in a mill. He also played for two professional teams, although he did not played a Test in England until 1888. He became the son of a miner, and Peel himself worked in the mines for a time.
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