Matthew Elliott (cricketer)
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| Full name | Matthew Thomas Gray Elliott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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28 September 1971 Chelsea, Victoria, Australia |
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| Nickname | Herb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Left-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 368) | 22 November 1996 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 1 July 2004 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only ODI (cap 164) | 25 May 1997 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1993–2005 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000 2004–2007 | Glamorgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew Thomas Gray Elliott (born 28 September 1971, in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former cricketer, who played as a left-handed opening batsman.
He made his debut for Victoria in the 1992–1993 season and soon established himself as one of the top opening batsmen in Australian domestic cricket, before progressing his way through to the Bendigo and District Cricket Association playing for the Bendigo Cricket Club in his role as an opening batsman.
Elliot was called up to the Australian national team in the 1996–1997 season, making his Test debut against the West Indies in November 1996. Unfortunately for Elliott, in just his second Test match he was injured in a mid-pitch collision with teammate Mark Waugh, resulting in the need for knee surgery.
Elliott returned for the 1997 tour of South Africa. On the Ashes series in the same year in England and scored two centuries, including a career-best 199. He also made his One Day International debut in 1997 in the Texaco Cup, but scored 1, making it his only appearance in a limited overs international. Elliott was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 1998, although this wasn't enough for him to hold down a regular spot, and due to inconsistent performances after the Ashes series, he slipped out of the national team in 1999. Steve Waugh, in his autobiography, described Elliott as "technically gifted but temperamentally flawed" and "prone to serious bouts of self-doubt and a tendency to let injuries rule his thought processes." He stated that "[Elliott] would have been a perfect candidate...[for] a sports psychologist."
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