Matthew Guy Newman Windows (born April 5, 1973) 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. He attended Clifton College

Clifton College

Clifton College is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England, founded in 1862. In its early years it was notable for emphasising science in the curriculum, and for being less concerned with social elitism, e.g. by admitting day-boys on equal terms and providing a dedicated...

 in Bristol

Bristol

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, representing the First XI for many years as well as being a double foster cup champion at rackets. He is a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. He has played First Class cricket for Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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 since the outset of his career in 1992.

Windows played four Youth Test matches in 1992, making his debut against Pakistan

Pakistani cricket team

The Pakistan cricket team is the national cricket team of Pakistan. Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Cricket Board , is a full member of the International Cricket Council, and thus participates in , and cricket matches....

 and appearing three times in the Sri Lankan

Sri Lankan cricket team

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 visit in August/September of the same year. Windows' father is former Gloucestershire cricketer Anthony Windows, and his cousins once-removed are John Hampshire

John Hampshire

John Harry Hampshire John Harry Hampshire John Harry Hampshire (born 10 February 1941, Thurnscoe (near Barnsley, Yorkshire) better known as Jack Hampshire, is a former English cricketer, who played eight Tests and three ODIs for England between 1969 and 1975. He played first-class cricket for...

 and Alan Hampshire

Alan Hampshire

Alan Wesley Hampshire is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1975....

.

Matthew won the 1998 NBC Denis Compton

Denis Compton

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award.

Matthew was married to his wife, Emma Virjee, in 2002.

External links

• Matthew Windows at Cricket Archive