Peter van der Merwe Cricketer
Peter Laurence van der Merwe is a former South African cricketer who played in fifteen Tests from 1963 to 1967. He captained the victorious South African teams in England in 1965 and at home against Australia in 1966-67, batting at number seven or eight. Although his overall Test batting record was modest, he played some important innings, none more so than during a seventh-wicket partnership of 221 with Denis Lindsay in the First Test at Johannesburg in 1966-67. The first player of Afrikaner background to captain South Africa, he wrote the Afrikaans cricket book Wenkrieket So Word Dit Gespeel in 1967. He later became a match referee.