# Matt Lineker

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**Matthew Steven "Matt" Lineker** (born 12 January 1985 in [Derby](/source/Derby), England) is an English [cricketer](/source/Cricket), a left-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler who played for [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire_County_Cricket_Club); he is currently a [free agent](/source/Free_agent). He made his first-class debut for [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire_County_Cricket_Club) against [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club) in August 2011. Lineker signed a summer contract with Derbyshire in 2010 for the 2011 season. Lineker had been a regular scorer in the Derbyshire Premier League before signing for Derbyshire.[1][2]

## County career

Lineker made his first-class debut against [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club) on 23 August 2011. He opened the Derbyshire innings along with [Martin Guptill](/source/Martin_Guptill) and went for a fourteen-ball duck as Derbyshire made only 132 in the innings. In the second innings he performed slightly better hitting 16 runs from 39 balls in a drawn match at [Chelmsford](/source/County_Cricket_Ground,_Chelmsford).[3] He made his [one-day](/source/List_A_cricket) cricket debut three days later against [Kent](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club). He made 13 runs from 23 balls opening with [Chesney Hughes](/source/Chesney_Hughes) as Derbyshire chased 209 for victory. Derbyshire won the match by 3 wickets.[4] He was released after just one season at [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire_County_Cricket_Club).

Since then he has played for the Unicorns side in one-day cricket, scoring his maiden century in August 2013 against Yorkshire after notching his first half-century earlier in the season against Middlesex. He followed this up immediately with another century, this time going on to make 132 against Leicestershire at Leicester.

## References

1. ["Derbyshire sign batsman Matt Lineker on summer deal"](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/derbyshire/9018658.stm). BBC Sport. 21 September 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

1. ["Derbyshire sign Matt Lineker for 2011"](http://www.espncricinfo.com/derbyshire/content/story/478148.html). ESPNcricinfo. 21 September 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

1. ["Derbyshire v Essex"](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/492218.html). ESPNcricinfo. 23–26 August 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

1. ["Derbyshire v Kent"](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/492355.html). ESPNcricinfo. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

## External links

- [Matt Lineker Cricinfo profile](http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/361428.html)

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