Ali Brown
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | - | 16 |
| Runs scored | - | 354 |
| Batting average | - | 22.12 |
| 100s/50s | - | 1/1 |
| Top score | - | 118 |
| Balls bowled | - | 6 |
| Wickets | - | - |
| Bowling average | - | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best bowling | - | - |
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 6/- |
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Alistair (usually known as "Ali") Duncan Brown (born Beckenham, 11 February 1970) is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is nicknamed "The Lord", in allusion to Ted Dexter because of his big-hitting, confident batting style.
Born in Kent, he won the Cricket Society's Wetherall Award for the most promising all rounder in school cricket in 1986 and his early promise led to second XI games for Surrey in 1988. He made his first class debut in 1992 and was awarded his cap in 1994. He shared the Walter Lawrence trophey (with Carl Hooper) in 1998 for scoring the season's fastest first class century, an even hundred in just 72 balls against Northamptonshire at the Oval featuring 10 fours and 6 sixes.
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[edit] 268: a world record score
Best known as a whirlwind opening batsman in limited overs cricket, his greatest achievement in the one-day game was scoring a remarkable 268 against Glamorgan at the Oval in the 4th round of the C & G Trophy in 2002, a world record individual high score in all senior one-day cricket. This blistering assault took just 160 balls and included 30 fours and 12 sixes. Surrey's final total of 438 - 5 in 50 overs was almost matched by Glamorgan who scored 429 all out and is remembered as the highest scoring one day match in the history of county cricket.
[edit] Ali Brown for England
Although he has played in 16 One-day Internationals, scoring a composed 118 against India in just his 3rd match in 1996, he has never played in a Test match. He is often described as one of the best present-day English cricketers not to have played Test cricket.[citation needed]
[edit] Ali Brown in Twenty/20
Because of his noted one-day abilities, Brown was expected to be a strong performer at Twenty20 cricket. However, he has performed rather poorly in that form of the game although he contributed a match winning innings of 64 from just 41 balls in Surrey's victory over Leicestershire in the final of the inaugural competition at Edgbaston in 2004.
[edit] Ali Brown in First Class Cricket
His first class record is more consistent and impressive than his reputation as a dynamic, crowd pleasing hitter might suggest. Up to the end of the 2005 English season Ali Brown had scored 13,164 first class runs at an average of 43.44, with 39 centuries and a highest score of 295 not out against Leicestershire at Oakham School in 2000. This record compares favourably with that of team mate and contemporary Mark Butcher who has scored his 14,881 first class runs at 39.16 and played no less than 71 Test matches with a batting average of 34.58. Ali Brown has taken 2 first class wickets with his optimistic off spin, snared 226 catches, mostly at slip, and is responsible for one first class stumping. In 2004, with a century against Lancashire, he completed the increasingly rare feat of a first class century against every other English county.
His dynamic stroke play helped Surrey win the County Championship in 1999, 2000 and 2002, the English domestic one day league in 1996 and 2003 and the Benson and Hedges cup in 1997 and 2001.
