Matthew Prior was a poet and diplomat.
Matthew Prior may also refer to:
- Matt Prior (born 1982), English cricketer
- Matt Prior (rugby league) (born 1987), Australian rugby league footballer
Matthew James "Matt" Prior is a former English cricketer, who played for England in Test cricket and for Sussex in domestic cricket. He was a wicket-keeper and his aggressive right-handed batting enabled him to open the innings in ODI matches, even when he made very limited appearance in shorter forms of the game. With an international Test debut score of 126, Prior became the first English wicket-keeper to hit a century in his debut match in early 2007. His glovework, however, was criticised. Despite a successful tour of Sri Lanka with the bat, Prior's keeping was less successful, and he was dropped from the team for the 2008 tour of New Zealand. He returned for the 2008 series against South Africa, and was retained into 2009, where he became the second-fastest England keeper to reach 1,000 Test runs, behind Les Ames. In his role as wicketkeeper, Prior has been described as 'a big talker behind the stumps' but has argued that this approach is different from the behaviour that saw him criticised during the 2007 tour by India; 'Ninety-five percent of the time, my chat is about geeing up our bowlers and the fielding unit.' He retired in June 2015 from all forms of professional cricket due to a recurring Achilles tendon injury.
Matthew Prior is an Australian professional Rugby league footballer who plays as prop, second-row and lock forward for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL. He was a member of the St George Illawarra Dragons' 2010 and Sharks' 2016 NRL Premership winning teams.
