Charles Clover-Brown | |
Country: | England |
Birth Date: | 18 September 1907 |
Birth Place: | Brentford, Middlesex, England |
Death Place: | Hove, Sussex, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Leg break |
Club1: | Buckinghamshire |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 2 |
Runs1: | 144 |
Bat Avg1: | 48.00 |
100S/50S1: | 1/0 |
Top Score1: | 100 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/– |
Date: | 25 May |
Year: | 2011 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/48388.html Cricinfo |
Charles Clover-Brown (18 September 1907 – 6 October 1982) was an English cricketer.
Clover-Brown was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. He was born in Brentford, Middlesex, and educated at Harrow School, where he captained the school cricket team.[1] He made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1926 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire, and played for Buckinghamshire from 1926 to 1933, including 10 Minor Counties Championship matches.[2]
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.[3] He played his second first-class match five years later, playing for Ceylon against the Indian University Occasionals.[4] He opened the batting and carried his bat, scoring 100 in the Ceylon first innings of 204.[5]
He served as President of Old Harrovians F.C. from 1964 to 1982.[6] He died in Hove, Sussex, on 6 October 1982.