Charles Clover-Brown (18 September 1907 – 6 October 1982) was an English
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er.
Clover-Brown was a right-handed
batsman who bowled
leg break
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the ...
. He was born in
Brentford
Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross.
Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...
,
Middlesex
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, and educated at
Harrow School
(The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God)
, established = (Royal Charter)
, closed =
, type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school
, religion = Church of E ...
, where he
captained the school cricket team. He made his debut for
Buckinghamshire
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in the 1926
Minor Counties Championship
The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...
against
Hertfordshire
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, and played for Buckinghamshire from 1926 to 1933, including 10 Minor Counties Championship matches.
Clover-Brown made his
first-class debut for Dr J Rockwood's Europeans XI against Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI in
Colombo in December 1930. He scored 27 in the first innings and 1 in the second. He played his second first-class match five years later, playing for
Ceylon
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
against the Indian University Occasionals. He opened the batting and
carried his bat
In cricket, the term carry the bat (or carry one's bat) refers to an opening batsman (no. 1 and 2) who is not dismissed ("not out") when the team innings is closed.
The term is mainly used when the innings closes after all 10 wickets have fall ...
, scoring 100
* in the Ceylon first innings of 204.
He served as President of
Old Harrovians F.C. from 1964 to 1982.
He died in
Hove,
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
, on 6 October 1982.
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1907 births
1982 deaths
People from Brentford
Cricketers from the London Borough of Hounslow
People educated at Harrow School
English cricketers
Colombo Cricket Club cricketers
Buckinghamshire cricketers
All-Ceylon cricketers