Matthew Guy Newman Windows (born 5 April 1973) is a former English

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er. He attended

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, representing the First XI for many years as well as being a double foster cup champion at

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. He is a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. He played First Class cricket for

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for his entire career (1992–2006). He scored 9,103 runs including 16 Centuries. Windows played four Youth Test matches in 1992, making his debut against

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and appearing three times in the Sri Lankan visit in August/September of the same year. He won the NBC

Denis Compton Denis Charles Scott Compton (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English multi-sportsman. As a cricketer he played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex. As a footballer, he played as a winger and spent most o ...

award in 1998. Windows' father is former Gloucestershire cricketer Anthony Windows, and his cousins once-removed are

John Hampshire John Harry Hampshire (10 February 1941 – 1 March 2017), also known as Jack Hampshire, was an English cricketer and umpire, who played eight Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England between 1969 and 1975. He played first-class ...

and

Alan Hampshire Alan Wesley Hampshire (born 18 October 1950, in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England) is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1975. A right-handed batsman, his only first-class match came against Derbyshire ...

. He married Emma Virjee in 2002.

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