William Brown (1807 – 28 August 1859) was an English-born
cricket
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player, who emigrated to Australia and played a
first-class cricket
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game for
Tasmania
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. He only played one
first-class game in his career, on 4 March 1858, where he had the honour of
captaining the team for that match. He had stepped in to replace the previous captain
Robert Still
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in the second game of a two-match series against
Victoria
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, played at the
TCA Ground
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The TCA Ground is a picturesque ground ...
in
Hobart
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He lost the toss and was obliged to bowl first, as the Victorian captain,
Tom Wills
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, chose to bat. Brown decided to open the bowling himself, and made an immediate impact. In a devastating opening spell, Brown's lightning fast
under arm bowling ripped through the Victorian order virtually unassisted, giving him first innings figures of 7 for 42 off 13 overs. His excellent figures had Victoria scuttled out for a paltry 78 off 26 overs. Despite the excellent bowling effort, Tasmania's batsmen, including Brown who made only 7, could not support the bowlers, and were also skittled, all out for 51, with
John Tabart
John Lewis Benjamin Tabart (30 November 1827 – 9 September 1894), was an English cricket player, who played five games of first-class cricket for Tasmania.
He has the distinction of having played in the first ever first-class cricket ma ...
top scoring on 8. Brown again excelled at bowling in Victoria's second innings, taking 8 for 31 including two
caught and bowled. Victoria had been dismissed for 67 off 20 overs, leaving Tasmania with a victory target of 95. Once again though, the Victorians demolished Tasmania's batting line-up, bowling the hosts out for just 25, with Brown out for a duck. Despite taking astonishing match figures of 15 for 73, as well as 4 catches, it was to be the only first-class match Brown would ever play.
Brown's figures of 8 for 31 would remain the best in first-class cricket for a bowler for Tasmania, until
Sam Rainbird
Samuel Leigh Rainbird (born 5 June 1992) is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler, and currently plays for Tasmania and the Melbourne Stars.
Before his first contract with Tasmania in 2011, Rainbird played Australian Rules Foot ...
took eight wickets for 21 runs against
Queensland
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in the
2021–22 Sheffield Shield season in March 2022.
William Brown died on 28 August 1859 in
Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
,
Tasmania
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, aged 52 years.
See also
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List of Tasmanian representative cricketers
This is a list of cricket players who have played representative cricket for Tasmania in Australia.
It includes players that have played at least one match, in senior first-class, List A cricket, or Twenty20 matches. Practice matches are not i ...
References
External links
Cricinfo Profile
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1807 births
1859 deaths
Australian cricketers
Tasmania cricketers
English emigrants to Australia