Lionel Brown

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Lionel Brown

Personal information
Full name	Lionel George Brown
Born	(1872-04-24)24 April 1872 Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England
Died	Chapel and Hill Chorlton, Staffordshire, England
Batting style	Right-handed
Role	Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1902–1903	Bedfordshire
1901	Berkshire
1895–1900	Bedfordshire
1892	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 22 Batting average 11.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 14 Balls bowled – Wickets – Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 9 December 2011

Lionel George Brown (23 April 1872 – 16 December 1938) was an English cricketer. Brown was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Ancaster, Lincolnshire and educated at Bedford Modern School and Merton College, Oxford.

Brown made a single first-class appearance for Oxford University against the Gentlemen of England at University Parks in 1892. In his match, he scored 8 runs in the university's first-innings, before being dismissed by Sammy Woods, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by John Ferris for 14 runs. The Gentlemen of England won the match by 10 wickets. Having played miscellaneous matches for Bedfordshire from 1891, Brown proceeded to make his Minor Counties Championship debut for the county against Wiltshire. He made five further appearances to 1900, before playing two matches for Berkshire in the 1901 Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire and Monmouthshire. He later made two appearances in the Minor Counties Championship for Bedfordshire, against Oxfordshire in 1902 and Cambridgeshire in 1903.

He died at Chorlton, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, on 16 December 1938.

External links

• Lionel Brown at ESPNcricinfo
• Lionel Brown at CricketArchive