Tony Brown (cricketer)
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Anthony Stephen Brown, born at Bristol on June 24, 1936, was an English cricketer and administrator.
A middle to lower order right-handed batsman and a medium-fast right-arm bowler, Tony Brown was a successful county cricketer with Gloucestershire for 20 years and was county captain between 1969 and 1976.
Initially used primarily as an opening bowler for a county that had traditionally relied heavily on spin bowling, Brown took more than 100 wickets in both the 1959 and 1962 seasons and formed an effective new-ball partnership with the England Test player David Smith, used before the Test spin trio of David Allen, John Mortimore and Sam Cook were brought into action. Later in his career, his batting developed significantly, and he passed 1,000 runs in the 1964 season. He was also an excellent close fielder, and in 1966, playing for Gloucestershire against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, he held seven catches in an innings, equalling the world record for a fielder set in 1957 by Micky Stewart. In his first-class cricket career, he scored more than 12,000 runs and took more than 1,200 wickets, holding 493 catches.
As an administrator, he was assistant secretary of Gloucestershire, secretary of Somerset and then administrative secretary of the Test and County Cricket Board. He is now Chairman of Cricket at Gloucestershire.
