Matthew Brimson

Matthew Thomas Brimson (born 1 December 1970) is a former English cricketer who exposed 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. When a series of team photographs were taken for the official Wisden almanack, Brimson expose himself for one of the photos; this was the photo that was chosen.

Brimson explained his actions as merely a prank that went wrong, and apologised quickly when his actions were discovered. He retired from professional cricket soon afterwards. Wisden, one of Cricket's oldest established institutions and an expression of the sport's "traditional" side, had not noticed the self-exclusive before publication.

Brimson played for North Devon Cricket Club, and works^[when?] as a geography teacher/head of sixth form as well as coaching hockey/cricket for West Buckland School.

The controversial photograph is on page 657 of the 2000 Wisden Almanack.

External links[]

• Career Statistics (Cricinfo)
• County player exposes himself in Wisden^[usurped!]
• "He has a cheeky grin on his face, and a quick glance at a region below his navel but above his knees explains why..."