Peter Joseph Moor (born 2 February 1991) is an International cricketer. Born in Zimbabwe but an Irish citizen based on his Irish family, he has played for both nations, as a wicket-keeper batsman. He is a former vice-captain for the Zimbabwe cricket team and a current opening batsman for the Irish test team.
Moor is also an Irish citizen, and now plays for Ireland. Moor holds an Irish passport[1] and, since 2021, has played cricket in Ireland, who he qualifies for based on his Irish citizenship.[2] In June 2022, Moor was selected in an Ireland Development XI to play a four-day game against Gloucestershire 2nd XI.[3] On 4 April 2023, Moor made his international debut for Ireland.[4]
Education
He pursued his education at St. John's College in Harare for which he also holds the highest individual score of unbeaten 214.[5]
In December 2020, he was selected to play for the Tuskers in the 2020–21 Logan Cup.[9][10] In April 2021, Cricket Ireland confirmed that Moor would be playing domestic cricket for Munster Reds during the summer of 2021.[11] He replaced the injured Tyrone Kane as the captain of Munster Reds for the remainder of the 2021 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Trophy.[12][13]
During the Irish winter, he returned to native Zimbabwe and played in the 2021-22 Pro50 Championship where he scored enough runs for him to be one of the top ten runscorers during the competition with 217 runs coming in 7 matches.[14] He also played a crucial role in helping Mountaineers to claim the 2021–22 Pro50 Championship title where Mountaineers defeated Mashonaland Eagles in the final by 71 runs.[15] He propelled Mountaineers total to 307/9 in 50 overs batting first in the final with a quickfire knock of 76 in 58 deliveries.
In July 2016, he was named in Zimbabwe's Test squad for their series against New Zealand.[23] He made his Test debut in the second Test on 6 August 2016.[24]
In June 2018, he was named in a Board XI team for warm-up fixtures ahead of the 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series.[25] He was also part of the Zimbabwean squad which played at the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier which was held in Zimbabwe where the hosts missed out on qualification by a whisker.[26]
In February 2019, Zimbabwe Cricket confirmed that Moor would be the vice-captain of the national side across all three formats for the 2019–20 season.[27][28]
His last international competitive match while representing Zimbabwe eventually came in October 2019 when he featured in a T20I match against Singapore during the final of the 2019–20 Singapore Tri-Nation Series which Zimbabwe eventually won by 8 wickets in a dazzling run chase of 168.[29][30] He also registered his highest individual score in T20I career during his final appearance in Zimbabwe colours in that match by smashing an unbeaten 92 off just 60 deliveries ending up in a player of the match performance.[31][32]
He made his Ireland debut during the only Test of Ireland's tour of Bangladesh in April 2023 and it also marked his first return to international cricket in nearly four years since October 2019.[42] He became the first Test cricketer to move away from Zimbabwe and to play for another country while John Traicos and Gary Ballance did the other way around having previously played for South Africa and England respectively before returning to play for Zimbabwe at international level.[43]
