this stage Sleep had received an offer to play World Series Cricket which he turned down. Test Debut By the end of the summer Sleep had scored almost 600 runs at an average of more than 35 and taken 42 wickets at 23 runs each in the Shield. Australia had lost 5–1 to England and the selectors decided to make changes to the side for the first of what would be two tests against Pakistan. Batsman Peter Toohey, spinner Bruce Yardley and all-rounder Phil Carlson were replaced with batsman Dav Whatmore, a medium pace all rounder Trevor Laughlin and Sleep. (Later on Laughlin had to withdraw and was replaced with Wayne Clark.) Strong bowling from Rodney Hogg and Alan Hurst put Australia in a strong position to win the game. However chasing in the second innings, Australia's batsmen collapsed from 3–305 to be all out for 310, taking Pakistan to victory. Sleep took 1–16 and 1–62 and scored 10 and 0. The Australian selectors responded to this loss by making mass changes to the side for the next test match – something they had done throughout the summer: Graeme Wood, Wayne Clark, Jim Higgs and Peter Sleep were dropped for Rick Darling, Trevor Laughlin, Bruce Yardley and Geoff Dymock. Sleep was voted the Sheffield Shield player of the year. He ended the summer having scored 657 runs at 32 and taken 47 wickets at 27. (He would never take so many first class wickets in a season again.) 1979 Tour of India Sleep was picked on the 1979 tour to India. He was one of three spinners in the squad, the others being Jim Higgs and Bruce Yardley. This meant Sleep had to break a contract he had signed with the Lancashire League, and Sleep was fined. Sleep began the Indian tour slowly but took five wickets against South Zone. According to the Canberra Times "three of them [the wickets] were from loose deliveries which a batsman of Gavaskar's class would put away. He does have the happy knack of taking wickets with bad balls, but there are doubts about his ability to bowl tightly enough against batsmen who were brought up playing spin bowling." He later took 5–71 and made a fifty against Central Zone, which put him in the frame for selection in the Australian team for the third test. He did not achieve this but was selected