Matthew Guy Newman Windows (born 5 April 1973) is a former English cricketer. He attended Clifton College in Bristol, 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 played First Class cricket for Gloucestershire for his entire career (1992–2006). He scored 9,103 runs including 16 Centuries.
Windows played four Youth Test matches in 1992, making his debut against Pakistan and appearing three times in the Sri Lankan visit in August/September of the same year. He won the NBC Denis Compton award in 1998. Windows' father is former Gloucestershire cricketer Anthony Windows, and his cousins once-removed are John Hampshire and Alan Hampshire. He married Emma Virjee in 2002.
Matt Windowsat CricketArchive (subscription required)
Related Research Articles
The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It became an official title in 1890. The competition consists of eighteen clubs named after, and originally representing, historic counties, seventeen from England and one from Wales. From 2016, the Championship has been sponsored by Specsavers, who replaced Liverpool Victoria after 14 years.
Mike Cawdron was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. During his five years in first-class cricket, he played for Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire, representing the latter in Twenty20 cricket during 2003.
Barry Dudleston is a former first-class cricketer and umpire. He was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicketkeeper who played cricket for Rhodesia, Gloucestershire and Leicestershire. By the end of his career of 295 first-class games he had made 14,747 runs at 32.48, with 32 hundreds and 241 dismissals.
Cardigan Adolphus Connor is an Anguillan born former English cricketer. Connor was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
Alan Wesley Hampshire is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1975.
Stephen David Snell is a former English cricketer a right-handed batsman who played as a choice wicket keeper. He is currently the second XI coach and academy director at Somerset County Cricket Club.
Edward ("Ted") Sainsbury was an English cricketer who represented, and captained, Somerset County Cricket Club in the late 19th century. During a 10-year first-class cricket career, he also represented Gloucestershire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Matthew Thomas Coles is an English professional cricketer. He is a bowling all-rounder who bowls right-arm fast-medium pace and bats left-handed. He plays for Essex County Cricket Club and has represented the England Lions cricket team. Coles played for Kent for two spells either side of spending 18 months at Hampshire in 2014. In 2016 he joined Bangladesh Premier League side Dhaka Dynamites for part of their season.
Simon Graham Hinks is a former English professional cricketer. He played for Kent County Cricket Club and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club between 1982 and 1994, scoring over 8,700 runs in first-class cricket. Since retirement he has coached cricket and worked in sports administration at the University of Bristol.
Jonathan "Jon" Hardy is a Kenyan born former English cricketer. Hardy was a left-handed batsman.
Richard John Scott is an English cricket coach and retired first-class cricketer. He was born at Bournemouth.
Andrew Joseph Murtagh is an Irish-born former English first-class cricketer. He is now a cricket biographer.
Alan William Harrington Rayment is a former English first-class cricketer. Rayment was a right-handed middle-order batsman. All but one of his first-class appearances were for Hampshire.
George Onslow Deane was an English cricketer.
Benny Alexander Cameron Howell is an English first-class cricketer. Howell is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Bordeaux, France, and was educated at The Oratory School in Berkshire.
Mark Davies is a former Welsh cricketer. Davies was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born in Neath, Glamorgan.
Kamran Pasha Sheeraz is a former English cricketer. Sheeraz was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Wellington, Shropshire.
Matthew Peter Dunn is an English cricketer. Dunn is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Egham, Surrey.
Alan Roderick Hansford is a former English first-class cricketer. A right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace, he was born at Cuckfield, Sussex.
Adam Paul Rouse is a Zimbabwean-born English cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. Rouse is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper, although he is considered versatile enough to play solely as a specialist batsman. Rouse has played for England at Under-19 level and made his first-class debut in 2013 for Hampshire. He played for Gloucestershire in 2014 before joining Kent ahead of the 2016 season.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
