Sherwin Pele Peters (born 2 May 1990) is a professional cricketer from

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who plays for the Leeward Islands in West Indian domestic cricket. He is a right-handed

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who often opens the batting. Peters was born in

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, but raised in Sint Maarten. In 2008, aged 17, he played for the Sint Maarten national team in the

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. The team was knocked out by

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in the first round, in a match which held full

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status. A former Leewards under-19s player, Peters' senior debut for the Leeward Islands came during the 2010–11 Regional Four Day Competition, against

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. In his second match, against

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, he scored a maiden first-class half-century, 57 runs from 154 balls. Against

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in the 2014–15 Regional Four Day Competition, Peters hit 136 runs from 213 balls, making his first hundred at that level.Leeward Islands v Jamaica
WICB Professional Cricket League Regional 4 Day Tournament 2014/15 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 December 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Sherwin 1990 births Living people Leeward Islands cricketers Sint Maarten cricketers Sint Maarten representative cricketers Trinidad and Tobago cricketers Immigrants to Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago emigrants