Summary Petherick went on to take 16 wickets in six tests at 42.56 and 189 first class wickets at 24.47.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Former New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick, a late-bloomer who became one of only three cricketers to take a hat trick on his test debut, has died. He was 72.
Petherick died in Perth, Australia on Sunday, New Zealand Cricket said. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Petherick made his first-class debut for New Zealand s Otago province in 1975 aged 33 and his test debut against Pakistan the following year.
He had 0-96 and Pakistan was 336-4 when Petherick achieved one of cricket s rarest feats. Javed Miandad and Asif Iqbal had added 281 for the fifth wicket when Petherick dismissed Miandad (163), Wasim Raja (0) and Intikhab Alam (0) with consecutive deliveries.
Petherick went on to take 16 wickets in six tests at 42.56 and 189 first class wickets at 24.47.
Warren Lees, who was Petherick s captain at Otago and was keeping wicket in the test at Lahore, recalled the occasion.
"He had 0-96 and he came to bowl to Javed who top edged a catch to Richard (Hadlee) by the umpire at square leg," Lees told Fairfax media. "So he had 1-96 and in came Wasim Raja, a left hander, who drove one back at (Petherick), who amazingly caught it. He couldn t even catch it when I threw it back to him so this was quite a surprise.
"All of a sudden he had 2-96. Next in was Intikhab Alam, he played at Surrey with Geoff Howarth. Howarth brought himself to a very silly point. Intikhab prodded forward hesitantly and the ball gloved him or squeezed out no distance and Geoff lent forward and took it one handed two feet from the bat."
