Matthew Brimson, Date of Birth
TweetMatthew Brimson
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1970
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Matthew Brimson
- Matthew Thomas Brimson (born 1 December 1970) is a former English cricketer who gained notoriety by exposing himself in a team photograph that was published in the 2000 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Brimson was a Slow Left Arm Orthodox bowler who played for Kent, and then Leicestershire, in the English County Cricket Competition.
- Only moderately successful as a professional cricketer, in 1999 Brimson was apparently frustrated at the management of the Leicestershire county cricket club.
- When a series of team photographs were taken for the official Wisden almanack, Brimson decided to expose himself for one of the photos.
- Unluckily for Wisden, the photo that they picked was the offending photograph. Brimson explained his actions as merely a prank that went wrong, and apologised quickly when his actions were discovered.
- His relations with the Leicestershire club never recovered, and he retired from professional cricket soon afterwards. The discovery of Brimson's actions caused a furore throughout the cricketing world at the time.
- Wisden, one of Cricket's oldest established institutions and an expression of the sport's "traditional" side, was embarrassed that the gaffe was not noticed before publication.
- The photograph of a sportsman exposing himself in the pages of one of the world's most "proper" publications was a source of much mirth. Brimson played for North Devon Cricket Club, and works as a geography teacher/head of sixth form as well as coaching hockey/cricket for West Buckland School. The offending photograph can be found on page 657 of the 2000 Wisden Almanack.
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