Peter Neutze


Peter Stephen Neutze is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played 15 first-class cricket and six List A matches for Otago [cricket team|Otago], Auckland, and Northern [Districts men's cricket team|Northern Districts] between the 1984–85 and 1989–90 seasons.
Neutze was born at Auckland in 1963. He played as a right-arm leg-spin bowler. His best innings figures came in his debut match when he took 5 for 109 for Otago against Central Districts in January 1985. His best match figures came four years later for Auckland, when he took seven wickets – 4 for 41 and 3 for 71 – against Central Districts in February 1989. A tail-end batsman, in his last first-class match in February 1990 he scored 40 for Northern Districts, adding 85 for the ninth wicket in 53 minutes with Brendon Bracewell against Otago.
Professionally Neutze worked as a lawyer until he was indefinitely suspended in 2006 after a series of complaints made against him.