Matthew Edward Cassar is a former Australia

Australia

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who represented Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 from 1994 to 2000 and Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks. The traditional club colour is Maroon. During the...

 from 2001 and 2002.

Cassar joined Derbyshire in the 1994 season and played a promising first-class game against the New Zealanders in June. However he played primarily in the Second XI Championship, debuting against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....

, and scoring a half-century in his second innings. A regular fixture in the Second XI team until the 1997 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1997

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1997 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and twenty-six years. In the County Championship, they won two matches to finish sixteenth in their ninety fourth season in the Championship...

, he made his breakthrough in County Cricket in that year.

He played consistently for the team until the 2002 season, when he transferred to Northamptonshire. Lower-division cricket was not to prove fruitful for him, however, and he left the game at the end of the season.

Cassar's former wife, Jane Smit

Jane Smit

Jane Smit is an English cricketer and former member of the England team. A wicket keeper, she was formerly married to Australian-born Derbyshire and Northamptonshire cricketer Matthew Cassar but she has reverted to her maiden name...

, has played Test cricket for the English women's cricket team

English women's cricket team

The England women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1934–35, when they beat Australia 2–0 in a three-Test series. Their current captain is Charlotte Edwards, replacing Clare Connor after her five-year tenure, which she finished by leading England to their first Ashes series win since...

since 1992.

External links

• Matthew Cassar at Cricket Archive