Peter Rudolph Carlstein (born 28 October 1938) is a former South African

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er who played as a middle-order batsman in eight

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from 1958 to 1964.

Career

Carlstein made his first-class debut at the age of 16 for

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against Natal at

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in 1954–55; in the second innings he scored 54 and added 161 for the seventh wicket with his captain,

Stephen Hanson Stephen Llewellyn Hanson (8 July 1931 – 27 June 1997) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket for Orange Free State from 1950 to 1959. Hanson was a right-handed opening batsman and off-spin bowler. He captained Orange F ...

. Three years later, still in his teens, he made his Test debut in the Fifth Test against Australia in 1957–58, scoring 32 in the first innings batting at number eight. He toured England in 1960, scoring 980 runs in 23 first-class matches at an average of 29.69, with a top score of 151 against

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. He played all five Tests, but scored only 119 runs, making his top Test score of 42 in the Fifth Test at

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. He played in the First and Fourth Tests in Australia in 1963–64, making 37 in the Fourth Test in Adelaide, which South Africa won. While the team was in

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in late February 1964, he received the news that his wife and three of his four children had died in a motor accident, and returned to South Africa immediately. Carlstein continued to play first-class cricket until 1979–80, when he was 41, 25 seasons after his first match. His highest score was 229 for Transvaal against the International Cavaliers in 1962–63, which was also his most successful season, with 852 runs at 71.00 including two other centuries. He was Rhodesian Player of the Year 1967–68. After his first-class career ended in the early 1980s he moved to

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, where he played and then coached at the Midland-Guildford club. According to

Wally Grout Arthur Theodore Wallace Grout (30 March 1927 – 9 November 1968), known as Wally Grout, was a Test cricketer who kept wicket for Australia and Queensland. Grout played in 51 Test matches between 1957 and 1966. He made his Test debut against ...

, Carlstein was "a descendant of a European royal family".Wally Grout, ''My Country's Keeper'', Pelham, London, 1965, p. 110. This was a misunderstanding, the result of a joke played on Carlstein by his teammates.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlstein, Peter 1938 births Living people Sportspeople from Klerksdorp South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Free State cricketers Gauteng cricketers KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Rhodesia cricketers