Peter, known by his team-mates as ‘Polish’ retired in 2007 as Ireland’s most capped player at the time – 124 games from 1995 until just after the World Cup in the Caribbean.

First picked as a fast bowler, he found his feet as a middle-order batter, making 2,774 runs at an average of 27.47.

But those figures do not reflect some important innings – one such came at the Lawn in 1998, when his 94 drove Ireland to a notable win over Bangladesh, and his 47-ball century at Bangor in 2005 is still the fastest for Ireland. In 2007, Adi Birrell described him as the “heartbeat of the team”.