Test batsman Peter Burge dies
AAP - 5 October 2001
Former Australian Test cricket batsman Peter Burge died today in Brisbane, aged 69. Burge is believed to have suffered a heart attack.
The Queensland Cricket Association was not aware of any other details.
Burge played 42 Tests between 1954/55 and 1965/66, scoring 2290 runs at 38.16 with four centuries.
The hard hitting Queenslander also scored almost 15,000 first class runs with 38 hundreds.
He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1965.
In recent years Burge had served as an international cricket match referee.
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