Peter Guy Laker (5 December 1926 – 28 February 2014) was an English cricketer and journalist. He played two first-class matches for Sussex County Cricket Club in the 1940s. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. In 1949 he joined The Daily Mirror as a sports correspondent, moving up to the cricket correspondents job in 1968. He covered Test match series both at home and abroad from 1968 until 1986 when he retired aged 59. After his retirement from the Mirror, he moved to Somerset. He died at Hatch Beauchamp nearTaunton in 2014.