Matthew Graham Pardoe (born 5 January 1991) is 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 str ...

er. A left-handed opening/middle order batsman, he played for

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. In Birmingham league cricket, Pardoe plays for Kidderminster Victoria. He went to Haybridge High School and having progressed through Worcestershire's academy system and played for Worcestershire's Second XI, Pardoe made his first-class debut against

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at New Road, Worcester at the start of the 2011 season, scoring 26 and 0. In his second first-class match, against

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at New Road, he scored 54, his maiden first-class half-century. He went on to make his second half century against Nottinghamshire finishing on 74 before being caught off the bowling of

Samit Patel Samit Rohit Patel (born 30 November 1984) is an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler, he plays first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Patel made his One Day International debut for England ...

. Pardoe scored his maiden first-class century against Glamorgan in a county championship game in 2013 scoring 102 off 235 balls before being caught off the bowling of

Dean Cosker Dean Andrew Cosker (born 7 January 1978) is an English former cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler who played for Glamorgan. He has played in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. He attended Millfield School ...

. He plays

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for

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, and in 2017 was county captain.

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* 1991 births English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Living people Sportspeople from Stourbridge English cricketers of the 21st century Herefordshire cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1990s-stub