He began his cricket career playing for the Pearl Club in Maitland and he topped the clubs batting average for four consecutive seasons and in the 1892/93 club season he came to prominence by averaging 70.4 with the bat with a top score of 149 not out and taking 24 wickets at an average of 10.54.

He played his first First-class match that season in which he scored fourteen in two hours, stonewalling at the instruction of Alec Bannerman.

NSW cricket reverted to a club system at some point and he played for Standards and then Robins.

[4] Moore's New South Wales State career ended in 1895 when he moved to Fremantle, Western Australia, and a benefit cricket match was played for him with an accompanying concert in Maitland as a farewell.

[5] He returned to Maitland after a short time, and renewed his association with the Robins cricket club,[6] and lived in the town for the rest of his life.