He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and at both he was take to be a batting prodigy. Through a Fifties, he was a virtually all uniform & prolific English batter around each county & test cricket. a correct-dextrorotary batter, he wwhen the particularly hard driver, & was regarded by his coeval as the virtually all refined & complete hitter of his era.

He processed his test match debut against the South Africans at Headingley in 1951, scoring 138, and was so a regular England streaming video player until forced out by unwellness at the prevent of the Fifties. The brief reappearance around 1961 was less successful, and he retired completely from either first-class cricket in 1963, taking higher the post in the City.

Can was a natural successor to Leonard Hutton as England captain after a successful defence of the Ashes on the 1954/55 tour of Australia, and he himself defended the two with success around 1956, when his Surrey colleagues Jim Laker and Tony Lock were the dominant players. A ensuing season, 1957, using the does'nt out frame of 285 & sharing the globe-record for-wicket partnership of 411 with Colin Cowdrey in the first match at Edgbaston, May took control of a end line text match series against the West Indies, seeing off the two extremely-despised spinners, Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine, who experienced taken a tourer to triumph within the last series in 1950. Could's captainship of England ended within disappointment, though, by owning a loss of a Ashes in the 1958/59 series in Australia. All told Might captained England in 41 occasions, winning Xx games, to a higher degree any more England captain. He wasted Decade & drew Eleven games.

Might was the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1952. He was captain of Surrey from either 1957 to 1963, winning the County Championship in his first 2 seasons, a final ii triumph in the record-breaking sequence of vii from either 1952 to 1958.

Can has a have known as fallowing him (the 'Peter Might Enclosure') at The Oval, Surrey, England.

He married Virginithe Gilligan, a girl of the previous England captain Harold Gilligan. It experienced triplet girl.

He served posthumously when President of Surrey CCC within 1995/96.

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External reference
[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PLAYERS/ENG/M/MAY_PBH_01000900/ Cricinfo page on Peter May]