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English
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England
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Eng
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Peter May
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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n/a
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66
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4537
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4677
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13/22
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285
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0
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0
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n/a
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0
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0
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n/a
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42/0
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388
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27592
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5100
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85/127
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285
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102
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0
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n/a
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0
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0
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n/a
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282/0
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26 July
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1951
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22 August
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1961
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was born
31 December ,
1929 at
Reading, Berkshire , and died on
27 December ,
1994 at
Liphook ,
Hampshire from a
Brain Tumour . He was an
English Cricketer who played for
Surrey ,
Cambridge University and
England .
He was educated at
Charterhouse and
Pembroke College, Cambridge , and at both he was regarded as a batting prodigy. Across the 1950s, he was the most consistent and prolific English batsman in both county and
Test Cricket . A right-handed batsman, he was a particularly strong driver, and was regarded by his contemporaries as the most graceful and complete batsman of his era.
He made his
Test Match debut against the
South Africans at
Headingley in
1951 , scoring 138, and was then a regular England player until forced out by illness at the end of the 1950s. A brief reappearance in
1961 was less successful, and he retired entirely from
First-class Cricket in 1963, taking up a post in
The City .
May was the natural successor to
Leonard Hutton as England captain after the successful defence of
The Ashes on the
1954 /
55 tour of Australia, and he himself defended them successfully in
1956 , when his Surrey colleagues
Jim Laker and
Tony Lock were the dominant players.
The following year,
1957 , with a not out innings of 285 and sharing a world-record fourth-wicket partnership of 411 with
Colin Cowdrey in the first match at
Edgbaston , May took control of the Test match series against the
West Indies , seeing off the two highly-feared spinners,
Sonny Ramadhin and
Alf Valentine , who had taken the tourists to victory in the previous series in 1950.
May's captaincy of England ended in disappointment, though, with the loss of the Ashes in 1958/59 and 1961 against Australia. In all May captained England on 41 occasions, winning 20 games, more than any other England captain. He lost 10 and drew 11 games.
May was a
Wisden Cricketer Of The Year in 1952. He was captain of Surrey from 1957 to 1963, winning the
County Championship in his first two seasons, the final two victories in the record-breaking sequence of seven from 1952 to 1958.
May has a stand named after him (the ) at
The Oval ,
Surrey ,
England .
He married Virginia Gilligan, a daughter of the former England captain
Harold Gilligan . They had three daughters.
May succeeded
Alec Bedser as Chairman of the in 1982 and held the post for seven years.
He served as President of the
Marylebone Cricket Club and posthumously as from 1995 to 1996.
