Peter Plummer

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Peter John Plummer (born 28 January 1947) is a former English cricketer from Nottingham. He was a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He started his first-class career with Nottinghamshire, debuting against Warwickshire in 1969, and his last first-class game for the county came in 1969 against Lancashire. He later played for Buckinghamshire from 1973 to 1977 in the Minor Counties Championship.

In 33 first-class matches, he scored 386 runs, with a top score of 46 and a batting average around 12.7. With the ball, he took 63 wickets, with best figures of 7/71, including two five-wicket innings (one of them against Oxford University). He also played 12 List A matches, scoring 29 runs and taking 13 wickets, with best figures of 5/44; his List A five-for came on debut against Yorkshire.

After retiring from playing, Plummer became a physical education teacher. In the early 1990s he was headteacher of Ellis Guilford School and Sports College in Basford, Nottingham, and he later served briefly as executive head before retiring in 2012.