Peter Graham

Who was Peter Graham?

Peter Arthur Onslow Graham played first-class cricket for Somerset in six matches in 1948. He was born at Kurseong, Darjeeling, India and died on the island of Jersey.

The son of a Darjeeling tea-planter and educated at Tonbridge School, Graham was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm bowler: his CricketArchive profile rates him as "fast", but the report in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack of his first first-class match in 1948 reads: "Graham, from Burnham-on-Sea, bowled well at medium-pace". In fact, that first game, a first-class friendly match between Glamorgan and Somerset at Rodney Parade, Newport, was Graham's most successful: he took four wickets in the match, including three for 47 in the Glamorgan first innings, and scored 33 at the end of Somerset's second innings. In five County Championship matches in the early part of the season, Graham never managed to surpass either the bowling figures or the highest score, and he took only three wickets in these games, all of them in the match against Gloucestershire, in which Gloucestershire made a total of 522 to win by an innings.