Alfred Shipley Matts (2 April 1893 — 20 June 1970) was an English

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er. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler who played for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

. Matts was born in Barrow-upon-Soar"Matts Alfred Shipley" in Register of Births for Barrow upon Soar Registration District, vol. 7a (1893), p. 161 and died in Anstey. Matts made a single first-class appearance for the team, in 1921, against

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. From the lower order, he scored three runs in the first innings in which he batted and a duck in the second innings, as Leicestershire lost the game by an innings margin.

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at Cricket Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Matts, Alfred 1893 births 1970 deaths English cricketers Leicestershire cricketers People from Barrow upon Soar Cricketers from Leicestershire 20th-century English sportsmen