Karl Brown
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Karl Robert Brown is an English cricket
er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who plays for Lancashire
. Brown made his first-class
debut in 2006 and his list A debut the following year. Between 2005 and 2007, Brown played 15 Youth One Day Internationals. In 2011, Brown scored his maiden centuries in first-class and list A cricket and debuted for Lancashire in twenty20
s.
. In 2005 Brown moved to Northern
and helped them to their Premier League
championship success that year. He moved again for the 2007 season to Milnrow, following career advice to gain experience as a nominated club professional.
Brown has played twelve Youth One-Day Internationals, making a top score of 109 in one such match. He has been awarded the Man of the Match trophy on two occasions for the England Under-19 team, once thanks to a speedy half-century, and secondly thanks to a one-man batting onslaught in a rain-affected defeat against the Indian Under-19 squad, the match in which he scored his maiden century.
On 11 May 2006, Brown made his first-class debut. The match was against Durham University
and, alongside veteran Iain Sutcliffe
, he opened the batting for Lancashire. He scored 2 and 32. It was the only match Brown played for Lancashire's first team that year. The next year, he made his list a (one-day) debut; playing against Worcestershire
on 22 April 2007, he came in at the fall of Lancashire's first wicket and was dismissed for one run. Brown has struggled to cement a regular place in the Lancashire side, and between 2006 and 2009 he played just seven first-class matches, scoring 156 runs with a high score of 40, and five one-day appearances, managing 72 runs with a highest score of 41.
Struggling to force his way into Lancashire's batting line-up in 2009 – made up of the likes of Tom Smith
, Paul Horton
, Mal Loye
, Mark Chilton
, V V S Laxman, and Francois du Plessis
– Brown was a regular in the top order
of Lancashire's second team which progressed to the final of the Second XI Championship
and the semi-final of the Second XI Trophy. He played just two first team matches for Lancashire in 2009, scoring 40 runs from 4 innings. In the last innings of England's 2010 Test series against Bangladesh he took a catch standing at wide mid-off claiming the wicket of Mushfiqur Rahim
off Steven Finn's
bowling, one of many substitute fielding appearances that day. After scoring 56 for Lancashire's first team against West Indies A
in a 50-over friendly, Brown make his first 40-over appearance of the season in a Clydesdale Bank 40
group tie against the Unicorns
. After Lancashire bowled the Unicorns out for 143 Brown scored a career-best of 65 not out
in their run chase which resulted in Lancashire winning with 144/1. In the seven one-day matches Brown played in the 2010 season, he scored 286 runs at an average of 47.66, including his first three half-centuries in the format.
. During the course of an innings of 85 against Worcestershire in August, Brown paseed the landmark of 1,000 first-class runs. Brown batted along side Steven Croft to win the final County Championship match of the season on 15 September against Somerset and in doing so winning the competition outright for the first time since 1934. The season ended with Brown scoring 795 first-class runs with an average of 31.80 (26 innings), 309 List A runs with an average of 44.14 (9 innings) and 240 Twenty20 runs with an average of 30.00 (9 innings). The performance meant he was named Lancashire's Young Player of the Year, an award for the club's under-24s.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who plays for Lancashire
Lancashire County Cricket Club
Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...
. Brown made his first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
debut in 2006 and his list A debut the following year. Between 2005 and 2007, Brown played 15 Youth One Day Internationals. In 2011, Brown scored his maiden centuries in first-class and list A cricket and debuted for Lancashire in twenty20
Twenty20
Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in England for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket...
s.
Early career and youth internationals
He was one half of his home town team's youngest opening partnership when he opened on the 31 May 2003 for Atherton Cricket Club's First XI. Brown's career with Lancashire stretches back to 2003, when, as a 15-year-old, he made his Second XI debut in a defeat against Somerset Second XISomerset County Cricket Club
Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...
. In 2005 Brown moved to Northern
Northern Cricket Club
The Northern Cricket Club, located in Crosby on north Merseyside, was founded in 1859.The original clubhouse was in Rawson Road in nearby Seaforth until 1879, when the club moved to Haigh Road in Waterloo Park....
and helped them to their Premier League
ECB Premier Leagues
In 1997 the ECB published "Raising the Standard", the ECB Management Board Blueprint for the Future Playing Structure of cricket. This introduced the concept of ECB Premier Leagues, designed to raise the playing standard of the top tier of club cricket and to bridge the gap between recreational...
championship success that year. He moved again for the 2007 season to Milnrow, following career advice to gain experience as a nominated club professional.
Brown has played twelve Youth One-Day Internationals, making a top score of 109 in one such match. He has been awarded the Man of the Match trophy on two occasions for the England Under-19 team, once thanks to a speedy half-century, and secondly thanks to a one-man batting onslaught in a rain-affected defeat against the Indian Under-19 squad, the match in which he scored his maiden century.
On 11 May 2006, Brown made his first-class debut. The match was against Durham University
Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence
Durham MCC University is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England and the name under which the university's cricket team plays....
and, alongside veteran Iain Sutcliffe
Iain Sutcliffe
Iain John Sutcliffe is a former English cricketer who played for the cricket teams of Oxford University, Combined Universities, Leicestershire, British Universities and Lancashire. He played as a left-handed batsman, primarily as an opener in four-day cricket, and as a very occasional spin bowler...
, he opened the batting for Lancashire. He scored 2 and 32. It was the only match Brown played for Lancashire's first team that year. The next year, he made his list a (one-day) debut; playing against Worcestershire
Worcestershire County Cricket Club
Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
on 22 April 2007, he came in at the fall of Lancashire's first wicket and was dismissed for one run. Brown has struggled to cement a regular place in the Lancashire side, and between 2006 and 2009 he played just seven first-class matches, scoring 156 runs with a high score of 40, and five one-day appearances, managing 72 runs with a highest score of 41.
Struggling to force his way into Lancashire's batting line-up in 2009 – made up of the likes of Tom Smith
Tom Smith (cricketer)
Thomas Christopher Smith, , is a cricketer who currently plays for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He has also been a member of the England Academy team. In 2008, he played for Leicestershire on loan because he was unable to break into Lancashire's first team. He is an all-rounder, bowling...
, Paul Horton
Paul Horton
Paul James Horton is a cricketer for Lancashire County Cricket Club in England and Matabeleland Tuskers in Zimbabwe....
, Mal Loye
Mal Loye
Malachy Bernard Loye , most commonly known as Mal Loye, is an English cricketer who has played first class cricket for Northamptonshire, Lancashire, and England A. Loye is a right-handed batsman, particularly well known for his slog sweep shot against fast bowlers...
, Mark Chilton
Mark Chilton
Mark James Chilton is an English cricketer. Chilton was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Durham University where he won the British Universities tournament in 1997. The same year he made his debut for Lancashire, aged 20...
, V V S Laxman, and Francois du Plessis
Francois du Plessis
Francois "Faf" du Plessis is a right-handed batsman who plays One Day International cricket for South Africa and is a former under 19 representative....
– Brown was a regular in the top order
Batting order (cricket)
In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time...
of Lancashire's second team which progressed to the final of the Second XI Championship
Second XI Championship
The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status...
and the semi-final of the Second XI Trophy. He played just two first team matches for Lancashire in 2009, scoring 40 runs from 4 innings. In the last innings of England's 2010 Test series against Bangladesh he took a catch standing at wide mid-off claiming the wicket of Mushfiqur Rahim
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahim is a Bangladeshi cricketer and captain of the national team. Between August 2009 and December 2010 Rahim served as Bangladesh's vice-captain. He specialises as a wicket-keeper and is a lower-order batsman...
off Steven Finn's
Steven Finn (cricketer)
Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949...
bowling, one of many substitute fielding appearances that day. After scoring 56 for Lancashire's first team against West Indies A
West Indies A cricket team
The West Indies A cricket team is a cricket team representing a sporting confederation of the Caribbean countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago...
in a 50-over friendly, Brown make his first 40-over appearance of the season in a Clydesdale Bank 40
Clydesdale Bank 40
The ECB40, currently known as the Clydesdale Bank 40 for sponsorship reasons, is a forty-over limited overs cricket competition for the English first-class counties. It began in the 2010 English cricket season as a replacement for the Pro40 and Friends Provident Trophy competitions...
group tie against the Unicorns
Unicorns (cricket team)
Unicorns is a cricket team in England that was formed in 2010 specifically to play in the Clydesdale Bank 40 limited overs competition. Members of the squad are all players without current full-time contracts with one of the regular first-class counties....
. After Lancashire bowled the Unicorns out for 143 Brown scored a career-best of 65 not out
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
in their run chase which resulted in Lancashire winning with 144/1. In the seven one-day matches Brown played in the 2010 season, he scored 286 runs at an average of 47.66, including his first three half-centuries in the format.
Breakthrough
Playing against Oxford Marylebone Cricket Club University in Lancashire's opening match of the 2011 season, Brown scored his maiden first-class half-century, beating his previous highest score of 40. His innings of 72 was surpassed in the next match when Brown scored 114 against Sussex to help Lancashire to victory in their first match of the 2011 County ChampionshipCounty Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
. During the course of an innings of 85 against Worcestershire in August, Brown paseed the landmark of 1,000 first-class runs. Brown batted along side Steven Croft to win the final County Championship match of the season on 15 September against Somerset and in doing so winning the competition outright for the first time since 1934. The season ended with Brown scoring 795 first-class runs with an average of 31.80 (26 innings), 309 List A runs with an average of 44.14 (9 innings) and 240 Twenty20 runs with an average of 30.00 (9 innings). The performance meant he was named Lancashire's Young Player of the Year, an award for the club's under-24s.
External links
- Karl Brown at Cricket Archive