Peter Aland Topley (born 29 August 1950) is a former English cricketer. Topley was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Canterbury, Kent. Topley made his first-class debut for Kent against Warwickshire at Hesketh Park, Dartford, in the 1972 County Championship. He made seventeen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Middlesex in the 1975 County Championship. In his eighteen first-class appearances for Kent, he scored a total of 150 runs at an average of 10.71, with a high score of 38 not out. With the ball, he took 14 wickets at a bowling average of 47.78, with best figures of 2/28. Topley also made a single first-class appearance in 1973 for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent, scoring 34 runs and taking a s