Alfred Shipley Matts (2 April 1893 — 20 June 1970) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler who played for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

. Matts was born in Barrow-upon-Soar"Matts Alfred Shipley" in Register of Births for Barrow upon Soar Registration District, vol. 7a (1893), p. 161 and died in Anstey. Matts made a single first-class appearance for the team, in 1921, against

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. From the lower order, he scored three runs in the first innings in which he batted and a duck in the second innings, as Leicestershire lost the game by an innings margin.

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