Stephen Robert Mather (born 13 August 1973) is a New Zealand former

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er. He played first-class cricket for Wellington and

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between the 1993–94 and 2000–01 seasons.Stephen Mather

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. Retrieved 16 May 2016. Mather was born at

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in the Hawke's Bay region in 1973.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 90. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played age-group cricket for both Wellington and Auckland and played under-19 Test and

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matches for the New Zealand team during the 1992–93 season. The following season he made his senior representative debut for Wellington, playing against Central Districts in a Plunket Shield match in December 1993.Stephen Mather
CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 November 2023. In a professional career which lasted until the end of the 2000–01 season, Mather played in 41 first-class and 69

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matches. He scored 1,606 first-class runs and took 22 wickets. He played in Otago for two seasons at the end of the 1990s.

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* 1973 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Wellington cricketers Cricketers from Napier, New Zealand {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1970s-stub