 Sueter began playing in the 1760s and made 67 known first-class appearances from the 1772 season to the 1790 season.He is said "to have been the first (or one of the first) who departed from the custom of the old players, who deemed it a heresy to leave the crease for the ball; but he would get in at it, hit it straight off and straight on, and egad it went as if it had been fired.