Cecil Leonard Morley Brown (16 July 1895 – 6 December 1955) was an English cricketer active from 1920 to 1926 who played for
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
. He was born in
Melton Mowbray
Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town had a population 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promo ...
and died in
Crowthorne
Crowthorne is a large village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest district of south-eastern Berkshire, England. It had a population of 6,711 at the 2001 census, which rose to 6,902 at the 2011 census. A 2020 estimate put it at 7,808. Cr ...
. He appeared in seven first-class matches as a righthanded
batsman
In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...
who scored 74
runs with a highest score of 33.
Cecil Brown at CricketArchive
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References
1895 births
1955 deaths
English cricketers
Leicestershire cricketers
Sportspeople from Melton Mowbray
Cricketers from Leicestershire
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