Peter Steindl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peter Steindl

Scottish cricketer

Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1970

Place of Birth: Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Peter Steindl

  • Peter David Steindl (born 14 June 1970) is a former Scottish cricketer who played a number of matches for the Scottish national side.
  • He later served in several coaching roles with Cricket Scotland, including as coach of the national team from 2007 to 2013.
  • In 2016, he was coaching Western Suburbs Bulldogs District Cricket Club in Graceville, Brisbane.Born in Bundaberg, Queensland, Steindl was raised in Australia, but moved to Scotland in 1993, with his Scottish wife.
  • His first matches for a Scottish representative side came during a 1993–94 tour of Zimbabwe.
  • A medium-pacer, most of Steindl's matches for Scotland came in the limited-overs Benson & Hedges Cup and Natwest Trophy (later called the C&G Trophy).
  • Beginning in 1995, he played ten matches in those competitions, all against English county sides, with his best figures, 3/43, coming against Derbyshire during the 1995 season.
  • Steindl did, however, play one first-class match, going wicketless against a touring Australia A side in August 1998.
  • He was in Scotland's squad for the 1999 World Cup, but failed to play a game.Steindl worked for a time in Edinburgh Council youth programmes before joining Cricket Scotland as youth development manager in 2006, replacing former teammate Andy Tennant.
  • After Scotland's senior coach, Peter Drinnen, resigned in July 2007, he and Tennant took over the team on an interim basis.
  • Steindl was permanently appointed to the position in December 2007.
  • He coached the team at the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, and was tasked with "rebuilding the side" after a number of senior players retired.
  • Steindl signed a three-year contract extension in February 2012, but resigned from the position in December 2013, after Scotland were unsuccessful at the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier.
  • He was subsequently appointed coach of the Carlton Cricket Club, playing in the Eastern Premier Division of the Scottish National Cricket League.
  • Steindl was succeeded as Scotland coach by Craig Wright and Paul Collingwood, on a transitional basis, and then by New Zealand Grant Bradburn, from April 2014.

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