Ali Brown
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| Alistair (Ali) Brown | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||
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| 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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As of 12 February 2006 |
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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. Matthew Reed, writing on the cricketarchive website, called him the most destructive (domestic) batsman of the modern age. Standing 5 feet 10 (and shrinking according to his Surrey CCC profile) and weighing just 80kg he is nevertheless one of the biggest hitters in the first class game.
Born in Kent, Brown attended Caterham School in Surrey, where he excelled and 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. Brown's whirlwind innings demolished the great Graeme Pollock's 27-year-old record of 222. His partnership of 286 with Ian Ward was the Surrey record for any wicket in one day cricket until broken by the 294 added by Brown this time with James Benning in 2007 against Gloucestershire in which Brown scored 176 off just 97 balls. The '268 Bar' at the Oval cricket ground is named after Brown's epic innings.
[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 and hitting a 31-ball 50 against South Africa in 1998 - the fastest in the history of the Texaco Trophy - he has never played in a Test match. Lawrence Booth, writing on his cricinfo profile, described him as one of the best present-day English cricketers not to have played Test cricket.
[edit] Ali Brown in one day cricket
Alistair Brown opens for Surrey in one day cricket, as opposed to his usual Championship batting position of number 5. He holds the record for the highest score ever made in the Sunday League, amassing 203 for Surrey v Hampshire CCC at the Woodbridge Road ground in Guildford in 1997 in a 40 overs a side match. He scored his first 100 off 56 balls, made 150 off 84 and 200 from 118 with 19 fours and 11 sixes. Brown scored a match winning innings of 64 from just 41 balls in Surrey's victory over Leicestershire in the final of the inaugural competition Twenty/20 cup at Edgbaston in 2004. He hit 30 sixes in one day cricket in 2006, second only to Cameron White.
He started the 2007 season brightly with a century in just 50 balls against Gloucestershire at the Oval in the Friends Provident competition (50 overs a side), the 7th quickest century in English one day cricket and the 12th fastest of all time. He set a new record partnership of 294, in less than 34 overs, for any wicket in one day cricket for Surrey CCC with James Benning, beating his own record of 289 with Ian Ward. He passed 150 runs in just 81 balls and scored 176 in 97 balls, with 8 sixes and 20 fours before missing a reverse sweep. The scorer of 19 one day centuries, he is one of the few contemporary English batsmen to have scored 10,000 runs in list A one day cricket.
[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 start of the 2008 English season Ali Brown had scored 14,705 runs at an average of 43.50 with 44 centuries and a highest score of 295 not out against Leicestershire CCC at Oakham School in 2000. This record compares favourably with that of team mate and contemporary Mark Butcher who played 71 Test matches with a batting average of 34.58 and whos first class average is under 41. Ali Brown has taken 2 first class wickets with his optimistic off spin, snared 236 catches, mostly at slip, and is responsible for one first class stumping. In 2004, with a century against Lancashire, he completed the 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 as well the English domestic one day league in 1996 and 2003 and the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1997 and 2001. He was a member of the side which won the Division 2 title in 2006 and was rewarded with another contract, being described by coach Alan Butcher as 'a great servant of the club'. As Matthew Reed said on cricketarchive.com "for sheer entertainment value, there are very, very few to match him in the county game."
[edit] Off the field
A keen golfer, he describes his favourite food as pasta in his Surrey CCC profile, his favourite TV program as 'Life Begins' and his most embarrassing moment as thinking that 'The Interval' were the support act at a Deacon Blue concert.
