Snuffy Browne
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Full name | Cyril Rutherford Browne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Robert's Tenantry, St Michael, Barbados | 8 October 1890|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died |
12 January 1964 73) Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana | (aged|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Snuffy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | CA Browne (Brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 1) | 23 June 1928 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 21 February 1930 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1921–1938 | British Guiana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1908–1911 | Barbados | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 30 January 2010 |
Cyril Rutherford "Snuffy" Browne (8 October 1890 – 12 January 1964) was a West Indian Test cricketer who was a member of the first West Indies Test cricket team, playing against England in 1928. A right-arm medium pace bowler, and right-handed batsman, Browne played first-class cricket for both Barbados and British Guiana in a career that spanned from 1908 to 1938.
Browne was born in Robert's Tenantry, St. Michael, Barbados. He played two Tests while touring England in 1928 and two at home when England visited the West Indies in 1929. At one time he was a magistrate in British Guiana. He died in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Georgetown, Guyana) aged 73 years 96 days.