He represented the Western province for their school level in Cricket and Rugby. He made his debut for the Western Province while in school for the Class Cricket and he scored 74 runs within a second innings. Towards the end of the 1973, Nuffield Week, he got chosen to join South African Schools team. In the match played against Northern Transvaal, which was his first game, he was able to score the century. He is a fifth schoolboy that had been able to achieve to this score.

He enrolled into the Stellenbosch University and it is where he played for S.A Universities in the 1976 and 1977, he scored the century in two matches he played. In the year 1978, he joined Western Province when they played against S.A Universities and then he scored a century. He became a professional cricketer in the year 1978 and he played in the team of Derbyshire since 1978 until 1982 in all the 106 matches when he scored 7,722 runs with 49.50 average. While in South Africa, he was playing for Western Province in its 133 matches and he scored 9,087 runs on an average of 41,88. He was the captain of Western Province in three seasons.

He was in the game of South Africa for the unofficial Rebel Test matches since 1982 until 1989, he scored 1,192 and 41.10 as average for 19 games. He was also the captain for South Africa in 6 games and they won 4 games, they lost one and they got a drawing for one. In his first class career, he was able to score a century in two innings for one match in three occasions with eight doubles that are the most made by a batsman from South Africa.

In 1990, he went to live in East London and he became a captain of a newly promoted team called Border. Peter Kirsten got married in 1983 and his wife’s name is Tuffy. After his retirement, he published a biography book called In the Nick of Time with Telford Vice. His family is in the sports and his father and brothers played first class cricket. His net worth has not been reported yet.