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Full name Alistair Duncan Brown

Born February 11, 1970, Beckenham, Kent

Current age 39 years 149 days

Major teams England, Nottinghamshire, Surrey

Also known as Lordy

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Height 5 ft 10 in

Education Caterham School

Alistair Duncan Brown
Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
ODIs 16 16 0 354 118 22.12 427 82.90 1 1 40 3 6 0
First-class 253 397 44 15386 295* 43.58 45 66 254 1
List A 384 368 18 10994 268 31.41 19 50 128 0
Twenty20 61 61 1 1421 83 23.68 918 154.79 0 10 172 54 36 0
Bowling averages
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
ODIs 16 1 6 5 0 - - - 5.00 - 0 0 0
First-class 253 1237 643 5 3/25 128.60 3.11 247.4 0 0
List A 384 520 561 14 3/39 3/39 40.07 6.47 37.1 0 0 0
Twenty20 61 1 2 2 0 - - - 6.00 - 0 0 0
Career statistics
ODI debut England v India at The Oval, May 23-24, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval, Jun 21, 2001 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut 1992
Last First-class Nottinghamshire v Lancashire at Nottingham, Jun 30-Jul 3, 2009 scorecard
List A debut 1990
Last List A Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire at Bristol, Jun 16, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20 Nottinghamshire v Lancashire at Nottingham, Jun 28, 2009 scorecard
Profile

His nickname, Lordy, is an allusion to Ted Dexter, and Brown can be just as destructive - if not more so. One of the biggest crowd-pleasers in the county game, he has been unfortunate to be pigeon-holed as a one-day player. In first-class cricket he scores heavily and quickly, lofting the ball over the infield on the off side with a mixture of power and style, and mauls anything pitched short of a length. His rampaging 268 in an astonishing match against Glamorgan at The Oval in 2002 is the highest score in a senior limited-overs game anywhere in the world. Picked for England in the one-day series against India in 1996, he was branded a clown by The Times after a helter-skelter 34 in the first game ("If Brown had appeared on a one-wheeled bike, wearing a silly hat and a red nose, and thrown custard pies at the umpires, he would scarcely have struck a more ridiculous figure than he did yesterday."). A duck followed, but Brown responded by smacking a century in the final match. It proved to be the high point of his international career, and although he hit a 31-ball 50 against South Africa in 1998 - the fastest in the history of the Texaco Trophy - he was quietly dropped after the mini World Cup in Bangladesh in 1998-99. Weight of runs earned him a recall for the 2001 NatWest Series but three appearances produced 21 runs and that was that. A gem in Surrey's middle order, Brown is also a sharp slip fielder and a good team man with a mischievous sense of humour. He may also have been one of the best modern-day batsmen in England not to play a Test. However, after a disappointing couple of years, he was released by Surrey at the end of the 2008 season.
Lawrence Booth September 2008

Notes

Walter Lawrence Trophy 1998

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Jun 22, 2009

Ali Brown goes aerial, Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire, Twenty20 Cup, Trent Bridge, July 22, 2009

Ali Brown goes aerial

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May 9, 2009

Ali Brown lashes another four in his unbeaten 63 as Nottinghamshire beat Somerset by six wickets, Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Trent Bridge, May 9, 2009

Ali Brown lashes another four in his unbeaten 63 as Nottinghamshire beat Somerset by six wickets

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Apr 17, 2008

Ali Brown sweeps as Surrey pile on the runs, Surrey v Lancashire, County Championship, The Oval, April 17, 2008

Ali Brown sweeps as Surrey pile on the runs

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Country Fixtures Country Results
Cambridge U v Oxford Uni at Cambridge - Jul 7-10
Oxford Uni 152 & 124/4 Cambridge U 339
Essex v Glamorgan at Chelmsford - Jul 7-10
Glamorgan 515/9d Essex 200 & 132/4 (f/o)
Northants v Derbyshire at Northampton - Jul 7-10
Northants 433/9d Derbyshire 371/4
Warwickshire v Sussex at Birmingham - Jul 7-10
Warwickshire 407 Sussex 276/4
England v Australia at Cardiff - Jul 8-12
England 435 Australia 249/1
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