# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-prior
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:13.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-prior"
name: "Matt Prior"
slug: "matt-prior"
description: "Matthew James Prior is a South African-born English former cricketer, who played for England in Test cricket and for Sussex County Cricket Club in domestic cricket. He was a wicket-keeper and his aggressive right-handed batting enabled him to open the innings in ODI matches, even though he made very limited appearances in shorter forms of the game. With an international Test debut score of 126, Prior became the first English wicket-keeper to hit a century in his debut match in early 2007. His glovework, however, was criticised. Despite a successful tour of Sri Lanka with the bat, Prior's keeping was less successful, and he was dropped from the team for the 2008 tour of New Zealand. He returned for the 2008 series against South Africa, and was retained into 2009, where he became the second-fastest England keeper to reach 1,000 Test runs, behind Les Ames. He retired in June 2015 from all forms of professional cricket due to a recurring Achilles tendon injury."
tagline: "Cricket player of England."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_prior.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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birthDate: "1982-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump