Toohey top-scored with a 44-ball 30, and the innings proved crucial as Australia won the match in the very last ball by 2 wickets. He also made his ODI debut on that tour in his second ODI at Castries, Australia were chasing 140 for a victory on a treacherous track. However, when Vanburn Holder fell as the ninth wicket - he showed some dissent, which triggered a riot, involving tear-gas and false-shots, resulting in a draw. He top-scored again, scoring a rapid 97 with 8 fours and a six, and Australia set West Indies a target of 369. It would remain his only Test hundred.Īfter Australia secured a 63-run lead, they needed quick runs, and Toohey rose to the occasion once again. He reached his hundred towards the end of the Day One, and eventually scored 122. 3, and though he lost Graeme Wood soon, he continued to bat on. The teams then met for the dead-rubber Test at Sabina Park.Īfter Simpson won the toss and elected to bat, David Ogilvie fell for a duck. He did not bat again, and Australia were routed by an innings.Īfter missing the next two Tests because of the injury, Toohey returned in the fourth Test, and scoring 40 and 17, but West Indies won again, sealing the rubber. He showed great courage and continued to bat, and was eventually clean bowled by Garner for 20 - the second-highest score of the innings. They were bowled out for 90 Toohey was hit between his eyes by a snorter from Roberts, and had to retire hurt when he came back, he was hit on his thumb again by Roberts. Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, and Colin Croft proved to be more than a handful for the Australians. Toohey was an obvious selection for the West Indies tour later that season. He kept on scoring runs consistently, and after his 64 and 31 against the touring Indians, followed by a 39 and 95 in the next match against Victoria, Toohey got a Test call-up against India - and began with a much-needed reassurance in the troubled times of the late 1970s. Toohey scored his maiden First-Class hundred the next season: playing against a Western Australia attack comprising of Dennis Lillee, Terry Alderman, Mick Malone, and John Inverarity, Toohey counterattacked, scoring 125 out of the 205 runs scored during his stay at the wicket. He made his First-Class debut later than month, scoring 0 and 12 against Queensland. He shifted to Sydney in 1972, and found himself under the tutelage of Simpson.Īfter a solitary match for New South Wales Colts (in which he did not get a chance to bat), Toohey was selected to play an exhibition match for a Rest of the World XI against an Australia XI, that too as wicketkeeper - in a match featuring stars from all over the world. After playing cricket at various levels since 1968, he was selected to tour New Zealand for Western Districts in 1971. Toohey was born in Blayney in New South Wales. He finished the series with 409 at 40.90. With 3 more fifties in the series (83 at Perth, 85 at Sydney, and 60 at Adelaide), Toohey proved to be one of the vital cogs in the new-look Australian batting line-up that managed to beat the Indians 3-2 in a keenly contested series. After the Australian fast bowlers restricted India to 153, Australia were reduced to 100 for four, when Toohey made a 105-ball 57, and the rookies won against the experienced Indian side by 16 runs. Coming out to bat at 49 for five, Toohey scored a dazzling 82 in 142 balls to lift Australia to 166. The team that took field against the visiting Indians, thus, had six debutant Australians. With Jeff Thomson as the only regular player available, they had to get an entirely new group of cricketers. When Kerry Packer struck Australian cricket hard in the late 1970s, the Australian selectors had to recall Bobby Simpson as the captain. The reference, of course, was to Toohey Breweries, a popular brand in Australia. “First there was Trumper, then Bradman, then Doug, now comes a cricketer so great they named a brewery after him” - ran a banner just atop the (rather affectionately nicknamed) ‘ Peter Toohey Stand’ at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the 1978-79. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at one of the torchbearers of Australian cricket during the days of World Series Cricket. Peter Toohey, born April 20, 1954, was a pocket-sized explosive batsman.
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