Matthew James Harvie (born 7 June 1984) is a New Zealand former

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 played 26 first-class and 14

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

matches for

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between the 2004–05 and 2009–10 seasons. Harvie was born at

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

in 1984 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 64. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played age-group cricket for Otago in 2001–02 and 2002–03 before making his senior debut for the representative side the following season whilst still a student at the University of Otago.Matt Harvie
CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 July 2023. A fast bowler who bowled with "good pace", Harvie played four first-class and four List A matches during his debut season. He did not play again for the representative side until 2006–07 when his "lively pace caused plenty of headaches".Seconi A (2009
Cricket: Harvie keen to get among the wickets
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'', 22 February 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2023. He took 18 List A wickets for the side and made his

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debut in the 2006–07 SuperSmash. A back injury which required surgery meant that he did not play at all the following season, although he returned to the side in 2008–09, taking 19 first-class wickets. He took the same number of wickets the following season, and at the end of the season was described by Otago's coach Glenn Turner as "a strapping right-armer who gets good bounce and is quite nippy". He did not, however, declare his availability for Otago ahead of the following season and dropped out of the representative side, retiring due to his persistent back injury. In total Harvie took 60 first-class, 21 List A and five Twenty20 wickets for Otago. His only professional

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came in a List A match against Northern Districts in January 2007, Harvie taking five wickets for the cost of 40 runs from his . He played Second XI cricket in England for

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in 2007 and in the

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for Beckenham in 2009. Since retiring he has worked in the financial services industry.Company news: Jasper appoints Mat Harvie to Head of Investor Relations
Jasper, 24 June 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2023.

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* 1984 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Dunedin {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1980s-stub