{"id":727919,"date":"2026-06-10T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727919\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:21:11","slug":"keith-piper-former-warwickshire-wicketkeeper-dies-at-the-age-of-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727919\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Piper: Former Warwickshire wicketkeeper dies at the age of 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Warwickshire wicketkeeper Keith Piper has died at the age of 56.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Piper spent 16 years with the Bears and was a key part of the club&#8217;s treble-winning side in 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the captaincy of Dermot Reeve, Warwickshire won the County Championship, the 40-over Sunday league and 55-over Benson and Hedges Cup and were only denied a clean sweep of silverware by rivals Worcestershire in the 60-over Natwest Trophy final at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That year Piper claimed 66 red-ball dismissals, including a county record seven catches in an innings against Essex and scored a career-best unbeaten 116 against Durham at Edgbaston, supporting Brian Lara in his world-record innings of 501 not out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That century was one of two, along with 14 half-centuries, in his 4,618 first-class runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, he claimed 540 first-class dismissals, including more than 500 catches, and added another 308 dismissals in one-day games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Piper helped Warwickshire win 10 trophies between his debut in 1989 and his final season in 2005. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Warwickshire wicketkeeper Keith Piper has died at the age of 56. Piper spent 16 years with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-727919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}