Matthew Graham Pardoe is an English

England

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 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 left-handed opening/middle order batsman, he plays for Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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In Birmingham league cricket

Birmingham and District Premier League

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, Pardoe plays for Kidderminster Victoria

Kidderminster Victoria Cricket Club

Kidderminster Victoria Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. Their 1st and 2nd XIs currently play in the Birmingham and District Premier League Premier Division. Their 3rd, 4th and 5th XIs play in the Worcestershire County Cricket League...

. He went to Haybridge High school and having progressed through Worcestershire's academy system and played for Worcestershire's Second XI, Pardoe made his first-class debut against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

 at New Road, Worcester

New Road, Worcester

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 at the start of the 2011 season, scoring 26 and 0. In his second first-class match, against Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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at New Road, he scored 54, his maiden first-class half-century. He went on to make his second half century against Nottinghamshire finishing on 74 before being caught off the bowling of Samit Patel and is soon expecting his England call up. He added a 28 in his second innings taking his match total to over a hundred runs.
Matthew Pardoe Enjoys Latin dancing and supports Wolverhampton Wanderers. Furthermore, Pardoe enjoys playing football which he learnt to play at good standard after inspiration from his best friend Holden Whitaker.