Austin David George Matthews (3 May 1904 – 29 July 1977) was a cricketer who played for Northamptonshire, Glamorgan and England.
Born 3 May 1904 in Penarth, Glamorgan, Austin Matthews began playing cricket at a young age with the Cardiff club[1] and with a natural height advantage he showed promise both as a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting batsman.
Competing for a place with Nobby Clark and medium-pacer Albert Thomas, Matthews played fairly frequently in 1928 and regularly from 1929 but in fact in these initial years fared better as a batsman than bowler, hitting 116 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston[2] and falling only 45 short of a four-figure aggregate – which in fact placed him fourth in batting for the county.
Although Matthews took 93 wickets in the dry summer of 1933 and formed one of the better new ball bowling partnerships with Clark, his very poor record in 1935 suggested his talent lacked depth.
In later years he occasionally wrote for cricket publications because of his strong criticism of post-war coaching methods.