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Full name Alistair Duncan Brown
Born February 11, 1970, Beckenham, Kent
Current age 38 years 146 days
Major teams England,Surrey
Also known as Lordy
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Height
5 ft 10 in
Education Caterham School
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
247
388
43
14957
295*
43.35
44
62
246
1
List A
375
359
18
10833
268
31.76
19
49
126
0
Twenty20
51
51
1
1170
83
23.40
750
156.00
0
7
145
46
34
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
247
1224
635
5
3/25
127.00
3.11
244.8
0
0
List A
375
520
561
14
3/39
3/39
40.07
6.47
37.1
0
0
0
Twenty20
51
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
Surrey v Kent at The Oval, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1990
Last List A
Surrey v Sussex at Croydon, May 28, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Kent v Surrey at Canterbury, Jun 25, 2008 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 pigeonholed 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 be the best current batsman in England not to play a Test.
Lawrence Booth
