Country: | England |
Fullname: | Charles Atherton Brown |
Birth Date: | 8 June 1854 |
Birth Place: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Death Place: | Grendon, Warwickshire, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Left-arm roundarm fast |
Club1: | Sussex |
Year1: | 1876–1878 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 11 |
Runs1: | 137 |
Bat Avg1: | 9.13 |
100S/50S1: | –/– |
Top Score1: | 26 |
Deliveries1: | 1,223 |
Wickets1: | 25 |
Bowl Avg1: | 23.00 |
Fivefor1: | 2 |
Tenfor1: | – |
Best Bowling1: | 7/58 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 10/– |
Date: | 20 June |
Year: | 2012 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10048.html Cricinfo |
Charles Atherton Brown (8 June 1854 – 8 July 1917) was an Australian-born English cricketer. Brown was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm roundarm fast.
Brown was born at Sydney, New South Wales. He made his first-class debut for Sussex against Kent in 1876 at the County Ground, Hove. He made ten further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Kent 1876 at the Higher Common Ground, Tunbridge Wells.[1] In his eleven first-class matches for Sussex, he took 25 wickets at an average of 23.00, with best figures of 7/58.[2] These figures, which were one of two five-wicket hauls he took, came against Gloucestershire in 1877.[3] With the bat, he scored 137 runs at a batting average of 9.13, with a high score of 26.[4]
Brown died at the now demolished Grendon Hall in Grendon, Warwickshire, on 8 July 1917.