Peter Joseph Davy
Peter Joseph Davy (born 1 July 1974 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

 is an Irish cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A right-handed batsman, he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team in a match against Scotland in August 1995, and went on to play for them 44 times in all, his last match coming against an England amateur team in July 2002.

Of his matches for Ireland, two had first-class

First-class cricket

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 status and eight had List A status. In all matches for Ireland he scored exactly 1000 runs at an average of 23.26 including two centuries, the highest of which was an innings of 132 against the MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 at Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground

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 in August 1999.

He represented Ireland in the 2001 ICC Trophy

2001 ICC Trophy

The 2001 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament played in Ontario, Canada in 2001. It was the qualifying tournament for the 2003 Cricket World Cup...

, the 2000 ICC Emerging Nations Tournament and the European Championship

European Cricket Championship

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 in 2002. His twin

Twin

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 brother John

John Davy (cricketer)

John Oliver Davy is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team in a match against Scotland in July 1997 and went on to play for them 26 times, his last match coming against Zimbabwe A in April 2000.Of his matches for...

also represented Ireland at cricket.