Peter Raymond Sleep (born 4 May 1957) is a former Australian cricketer who played 14 Test matches for Australia between 1979 and 1990. Nicknamed "Sounda", Sleep made his national debut during the World Series Cricket period, and although his performances were not high, Sleep publicly reported that he had turned down a $15,000/year offer to play for World Series Cricket. He was a leg spinner who was in and out of the team, rarely playing two games in succession, though after taking ten wickets in the 1986–87 Ashes he was retained for the next four Tests after the series before falling out of favour again. The 1986–87 series which included his best bowling figures in a Test innings, five for 72 in the second innings as England failed to chase 320 for the win. However, Sleep was part of an Australian generation of spinners with bowling averages above 40 (for comparison, the first choice leg spinners in 2006, Shane Warne and Stuart MacGill, both averaged below 30 with the ball), also including Tom Hogan, Murray Bennett and Tony Mann, and the cricket website Cricinfo summed up his career as a "relatively anodyne slow bowler". Sleep himself describes his test career as "mediocre". Early career Peter Sleep made his first class debut in 1976–77 while still a teenager. In only his second game he took part in a 159 run partnership with David Hookes against Queensland. In 1977–78 a number of Australian players were banned from playing first class cricket due to signing with World Series Cricket, including the two leading spinners in the country, Kerry O'Keefe and Ray Bright. The spinners chosen to play for Australia that summer included Tony Mann, Jim Higgs and Bruce Yardley. Sleep scored 363 runs at summer at an average of 40 and took 15 wickets at 31.46. However it was Yardley and Higgs who were chosen to the West Indies, where both acquitted themselves well. First Stint as Test Player 1978-79 Sleep's breakthrough season came in the summer of 1978-79, when Australian was being toured by England and Pakistan. Sleep was not selected for any tests against England, which Australia lost 5-1; the preferred choices were Bruce Yardley and Jim Higgs. In a SA vs NSW game, Sleep took 6–94 and scored 91 which saw him in the frame for test selection. He followed this up with 5–24 in 13 overs against Queensland. By