Matthew Bowyer (born 25 July 1973) 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 striki ...

er. Bowyer is a right-handed batsman. He was born in Eastbourne,

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. Bowyer made his debut for

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

in the 1996

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

against

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

. Bowyer played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1996 to 2003, which included 12 Minor Counties Championship matches and 10 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1997, he made his

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 ...

debut against Essex in the NatWest Trophy. He played 4 further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against Gloucestershire in the

2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an County cricket, English county cricket tournament, held between 29 August 2002 and 30 August 2003. The competition was won by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Gloucestershire who beat Worcestersh ...

. In his 5 List A matches, he scored 114 runs at a batting average of 22.80, with a high score of 43.

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