Matt Prior
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| Full name | Matthew James Prior | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 February 1982 Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa |
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| Nickname | Big Cheese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicketkeeper-batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 635) | 17 May 2007 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 17 July 2014 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 187) | 5 December 2004 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 26 March 2011 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2001–15 | Sussex (squad no. 13) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | MCC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Victoria Bushrangers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 19 February 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Matthew James "Matt" Prior (born 26 February 1982) is a retired 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.
Prior was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and moved to England with his family aged 11. His mother is South African and his father is English. Prior attended Brighton College during which time he began playing for Sussex County Cricket Club. During his early years he played his colts cricket at St Matthias CC. From an early age Prior showed commitment to charitable causes and has never shied away from taking part in matches and events in the name of charity. He is married to Emily, the daughter of former footballer Sammy Nelson who played for Arsenal F.C. and Brighton & Hove Albion. The Priors have a son named Jonathan who was born early 2009 and a daughter born on 27 June 2015.
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