Peter Moores

Who is Peter Moores?

Peter Moores is a former English county cricketer and the current England national team coach, since April 2014.

Moores played as a wicketkeeper for Worcestershire and Sussex and captained Sussex in 1997. He retired from playing first-class cricket in 1998 and became the coach of Lancashire County Cricket Club, on 11 February 2009. Moores was a successful coach of Sussex leading the county to the 2003 County Championship. Moores coached England "A" on their tour of the West Indies in 2000-01 and the English National Cricket Academy from October 2005 to 2007. He was appointed coach of the full England team in April 2007. On 7 January 2009 Moores was removed as coach following a public falling out with Kevin Pietersen, who also left his position as England captain. He became the coach of Lancashire County Cricket Club, on 11 February 2009.Since then he has guided Lancashire to the county championship title in 2011 for the first time outright for 77 years making him currently the only coach to have won the championship with two different counties. In 2012 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the ECB's Fellowship of Elite Coaches. More recently he was selected as one of ten people into the UK sport elite coaches programme and as a motivational speaker he delivers to both sport and business.