Jimmy Brown (cricketer)
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Jimmy Brown was an English
cricket
er. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Gainford
and died in Denmark
.
Brown's only County Championship appearance coming in 1890 against Kent
. He played one more match during the 1890 season, against a team of touring Australians, and, from 1891 until his final appearance in 1899, he played in miscellaneous matches for Durham, a team still 100 years off achieving first-class status at the time of his first appearance.
Brown also appeared for a South of England team against a group of touring Australians in 1896.
Brown died at the age of 52 in Copenhagen
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Gainford
Gainford, County Durham
Gainford on Tees is a village on the north bank of the River Tees in County Durham, England. It is half-way between Barnard Castle and Darlington, near Winston, at OS map reference NZ 1716....
and died in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
.
Brown's only County Championship appearance coming in 1890 against Kent
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the county of Kent...
. He played one more match during the 1890 season, against a team of touring Australians, and, from 1891 until his final appearance in 1899, he played in miscellaneous matches for Durham, a team still 100 years off achieving first-class status at the time of his first appearance.
Brown also appeared for a South of England team against a group of touring Australians in 1896.
Brown died at the age of 52 in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
.
External links
- Jimmy Brown at Cricket Archive