David Wyndham James Brown (26 February 1942 – 17 August 2021) was an English
cricket
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er. He played for
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
between 1964 and 1967.
Brown was a middle-order batsman. On his
first-class debut in 1964 he top-scored with a solid 50 in Gloucestershire's first innings of 139 against
Surrey
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. He made his only first-class
century
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against
Glamorgan
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in 1965 when he scored 142 to avert defeat after Gloucestershire had
followed on
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. He was Gloucestershire's top scorer with 59 in the first innings of the low-scoring match against
Pakistan in 1967.
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1942 births
2021 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Sportspeople from Cheltenham
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