Peter Antony Petricola (born 5 May 1983) is an Australian-born Italian cricketer. Petricola is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was born at Melbourne, Victoria. While in Australia, Preticola played four matches for the Victoria Under-19s in December 2001. After a short spell in England in 2005, where he played club cricket for in the Leicestershire Premier League, He later qualified to play for Italy, owing to his Italian heritage. His first appearance for Italy came against a Leinster Cricket Union President's XI in a warm up match for the 2008 European Cricket Championship Division One, in which Petricola played five matches. He was then selected as part of Italy's squad for the 2008 World Cricket League Division Four in Tanzania, making six appearances. He scor