Matthew Gilkes (born 21 August 1999) is an Australian

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er who plays for

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

. He made his

Twenty20 Twenty20 (abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two t ...

debut for the

Sydney Thunder The Sydney Thunder is an Australian franchise professional cricket team, competing in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League. Along with the Sydney Sixers, the Thunder is the successor to the Speed Blitz Blues, ...

against the

Perth Scorchers The Perth Scorchers are an Australian men's professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that competes in the Big Bash League. The Scorchers wear an orange uniform and are based in Perth in the Australian state of Western Australia. Their home gr ...

on 24 January 2019 during the 2018-19 Big Bash League season. He made his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the Limited overs cricket, 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 competit ...

debut for New South Wales, on 30 September 2019, in the

2019–20 Marsh One-Day Cup The 2019 Marsh One-Day Cup was the 51st season of the official List A domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament saw matches played in Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, and Hobart. Fox Cricket broadcast t ...

. He made his first-class debut on 1 November 2019, for New South Wales in the

2019–20 Sheffield Shield season The 2019–20 Sheffield Shield season was the 118th season of the Sheffield Shield, the Australia, Australian domestic first-class cricket, first-class cricket competition. It began on 10 October 2019 and was scheduled to finish on 31 March 2020 ...

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* 1999 births Living people Australian cricketers New South Wales cricketers Sydney Thunder cricketers People from the South Coast (New South Wales) Cricketers from New South Wales 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-cricket-bio-1990s-stub