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| Full name | Hayley Kristen Matthews | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1998-03-19)19 March 1998 (age 27) Barbados | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armoff break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 81) | 11 November 2014 West Indies v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 17 June 2025 West Indies v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 34/8) | 27 September 2014 West Indies v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 23 June 2025 West Indies v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–present | Barbados | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015/16–2020/21 | Hobart Hurricanes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Lancashire Thunder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Southern Vipers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Velocity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Loughborough Lightning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Welsh Fire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Trailblazers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–present | Barbados Royals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022/23 | Melbourne Renegades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023-present | Mumbai Indians | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,2 October 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hayley Kristen Matthews (born 19 March 1998) is aBarbadian sportswoman. She plays international cricket for theWest Indies andMumbai Indians as anall-rounder,batting right-handed andbowling right-armoff break. She plays domestic cricket forBarbados,Barbados Royals andMelbourne Renegades, and has previously played forTasmania,Lancashire Thunder,Southern Vipers,Loughborough Lightning,Velocity andHobart Hurricanes.[1] She has also represented Barbados in thejavelin throw at several internationaltrack and field competitions.[2] In June 2022, Matthews was named as the captain of the West Indies women's cricket team, taking over fromStafanie Taylor.[3]
Matthews was born in Barbados[4] and raised inBridgetown, its capital and largest city. Her father, Mike,batted at no. 4 and bowledoff-breaks forPickwick Cricket Club, one of the island's leading clubs.[5] Previously, he had played in the Barbados Under-19 team.[6]
After Matthews started attending People's Cathedral Primary School, which was next door to her home, an opportunity arose for her to play the game formally. At the age of eight or nine, she asked the school's boys' team coach whether she could be a member of the team. Her request was granted.[5] By the time she was 11 years old, she had become the team's captain.[7]
At the end of her primary school years, Matthews did well enough in Barbados's controversial[8] Common Entrance examinations to be accepted into the island's most prestigious secondary school,[9][10]Harrison College,[5][6] which was founded as an all-boys school in 1733.[9] Although the college has charged no fees since the 1960s,[10] and has been co-educational since 1980,[9] it is often referred to as the 'Eton College of Barbados'.[10] Its many sporting alumni includeSir Pelham ("Plum") Warner, the "Grand Old Man" of English cricket,[11] andSir Clyde Walcott.[12]
Soon after starting at Harrison College, Matthews joined the school's previously all-boys' Under-13 team as an opening batter. With her assistance, the team immediately won a tournament.[5] In her final year as an Under-13 player, she captained the team,[5][6] the first female to do so.[6]
Matthews recommends that talented young female cricketers play in boys' teams. She believes that her experiences in such teams assisted her with facing fast bowling, and improved her fielding. At the age of 18, she had already played in the Men's First Division for the Pickwick Club, alongside male players including West Indies batterShai Hope.[5] As of 2022, she was still in contact with most of the male players she used to captain in her Under-13 team.[6]
Matthews made her debut for the Barbadian cricket team at the age of 12.[13]
In July 2022, she was named as the captain of the Barbados team for thecricket tournament at the2022 Commonwealth Games inBirmingham, England.[14]
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Matthews spent the 2015–16 season playing domestic cricket in Australia, representing theTasmanian Roar in theWomen's National Cricket League and theHobart Hurricanes inthe inaugural season of theWomen's Big Bash League.[15] In one WBBL match against theMelbourne Stars, she scored 77 runs from 51 balls.[16]
In November 2018, she was named in theHobart Hurricanes' squad for the2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.[17][18]
In 2021, Matthews was drafted byWelsh Fire for theinaugural season ofThe Hundred.[19]
In April 2022, she was bought by theWelsh Fire for the2022 season ofThe Hundred in England.[20]
In March 2023, Matthews was selected to play for theMumbai Indians in the2023 Women's Premier League.[21] She scored 271 runs and picked up 16 wickets in that league, helping her team to clinch the WPL title.[22] She became the leading wicket-taker winning thePurple Cap,[23] and was awarded theplayer of the tournament for her all-round performance.[24]
Matthews' international debut for the West Indies came at the age of 16, in aTwenty20 International againstNew Zealand in September 2014.[25] Matthews made herOne Day International (ODI) debut a few months later,[26] scoring 55 runs from 86 balls in the first game of a four-ODI series againstAustralia.[27] In the second game, she scored 89 runs from 108 balls,[28] and in the third game, 60 runs from 81 balls.[29]
Matthews has been a regular for the West Indies since her debut,[25][26] and was a key member of the team that won the2016 World Twenty20, scoring 66 runs from 45 balls in the final.[30]
In October 2018,Cricket West Indies (CWI) awarded her a women's contract for the 2018–19 season.[31][32] Later the same month, she was named in the West Indies' squad for the2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[33][34] Ahead of the tournament, she was named as the player to watch in the team,[35] and was appointed vice-captain of the team.[36]
In January 2020, she was named in West Indies' squad for the2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[37] In September 2020, in the third matchagainst England, Matthews took her 50th wicket in WT20Is.[38]
In May 2021, Matthews was awarded with a central contract fromCricket West Indies.[39] In October 2021, she was named in the West Indies team for the2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe.[40] In February 2022, she was named in the West Indies team for the2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[41]
On April 15, 2024 Matthews was named Wisden's Leading Twenty20 Cricketer in 2023[42]
She was named as captain of the West Indies squad for the2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[43] Matthews played in her 100th WT20I in the final group match againstEngland, scoring 52 off 38 balls as West Indies clinched a semi-final place with a six-wicket win.[44][45]
Matthews was captain was of the West Indies squad for the2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Pakistan in April 2025.[46]
On 22 September 2018, Matthews scored her maiden ODI hundred against South Africa in front of her home crowd at Bridgetown. She had scored a duck in the opening match of the series and, after a wash-out in the second ODI, she hit 17 fours in her 146-ball 117.[47]
| No. | Runs | Match | Opponents | City, country | Venue | Year |
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| 1 | 117 | 39 |  South Africa | Bridgetown,Barbados | Kensington Oval | 2018[49] |
| 2 | 100* | 46 |  Pakistan | North Sound,Antigua | Sir Vivian Richards Stadium | 2021[50] |
| 3 | 119 | 53 |  New Zealand | Mount Maunganui,New Zealand | Bay Oval | 2022[51] |
| 4 | 109 | 76 |  Ireland | Gros Islet,Saint Lucia | Daren Sammy Cricket Ground | 2023[52] |
| 5 | 140* | 81 | Pakistan | Karachi,Pakistan | National Stadium | 2024[53] |
| 6 | 141 | 83 | Pakistan | Karachi,Pakistan | National Stadium | 2024[54] |
| 7 | 106 | 86 |  India | Vadodara,India | Kotambi Stadium | 2024[55] |
| 8 | 104* | 88 |  Bangladesh | Basseterre,Saint Kitts | Warner Park | 2025[56] |
| 9 | 114* | 91 |  Scotland | Lahore,Pakistan | Lahore City Cricket Association Ground | 2025[57] |
| No. | Runs | Match | Opponents | City, country | Venue | Year |
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| 1 | 107* | 41 | Ireland | Dublin, Ireland | Sydney Parade | 2019[59] |
| 2 | 132 | 87 |  Australia | Sydney, Australia | North Sydney Oval | 2023[60] |
| 3 | 100* | 107 |  England | Canterbury, England | St Lawrence Ground | 2025[61] |
Matthews has played for the Warriors team in twoFairBreak Invitational T20 competitions.[62][63] Atthe inaugural Invitational, held in Dubai in May 2022, she took 5/123 in five matches and made 153 runs at 30.60 including two half centuries:[62] 58 against the Falcons[64] and 52 against Barmy Army.[65]
During thesecond Invitational, in Hong Kong in April 2023, Matthews took 5/88 and made an aggregate of 168 runs in four matches.[63] Most of those runs were scored in the final, in which she was named Player of the Match after hitting 123 in 52 balls and then taking 2/14 to guide her team to victory in the match, and therefore also the tournament.[66]
As an athlete, Matthews competed in thejavelin throw, and represented Barbados in a number of international meets and competitions. She won silver medals at the2013 and2014 CARIFTA Games, competing in the under-17 and under-18 categories, respectively. At the2014 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics, held in Mexico, she won a bronze medal in the under-18 category, while at the2015 CARIFTA Games she won her first gold medal, again competing in the under-18 category.[67]
Matthews hastype 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 12, after displaying symptoms during a family vacation. Her father, also a diabetic, was the first to make sense of her symptoms. The diabetes is a challenge for Matthews' sporting career, but she controls it with good management. Her team mates are aware of it, and of what to expect.[68]
Matthews is also a fan ofEnglish Premier League teamArsenal FC.[69]
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