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Full name | Matthew Williams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | June 28, 1990|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Collin Williams (father) Patricia McKillop (mother) Michael McKillop (step brother) Sean Williams (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Westerns cricket team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,23 January 2018 |
Matthew Collin Lee Williams (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean former cricketer. He played four first-class cricket matches and three List A cricket matches in his career for Matabeleland Tuskers and Westerns. [1]
His father,Collin Williams was a Zimbabwean first-class cricketer and a former field hockey coach and his mother,Patricia McKillop is a Zimbabwean woman field hockey player who was also a key member of the Zimbabwean field hockey team which claimed gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. [2] [3] Matthew's step brother,Michael McKillop is a Zimbabwean field hockey player and served as the captain of the national field hockey team who also played first-class cricket for Matabeleland. [4] His elder brother,Sean Williams,has played international cricket for Zimbabwe since 2005 and has captained the team since 2019. [5] [6]
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