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Mathew Christensen

South African cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ26837872 ↗
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Mathew Christensen (born 17 July 1996) is a South African cricketer. He made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Eastern Province on 18 September 2015 in the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. In September 2018, he was named in Eastern Province's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. In September 2019, he was named in Eastern Province's squad for the 2019–20 CSA Provincial T20 Cup. He was the leading run-scorer in the 2019–20 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup, with 776 runs in ten matches.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2015, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-07-17. The account is most persuasive where Mathew, Christensen and South can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mathew Christensen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.