Brian Maurice Brain[1] (13 September 1940 – 1 November 2023)[2] was an English first-class cricketer whose career with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire stretched over more than two decades.
[6] After turning in some good performances in the Worcestershire second team, Brain was selected to make his first-class debut against Oxford University in late June 1959.
Although he dropped out of the side thereafter, he returned as a regular from mid-August to the end of the season, finishing with 31 wickets at 24.19 as Worcestershire won their first ever County Championship.
[4] For most of the rest of the 1960s, he continued to play a dozen games a season or slightly more, as well as a handful of one-day matches, and to pick up around 40 wickets a year.
[4] Now approaching forty years old, Brain's form began to tail off,[4] and after leaving Gloucestershire in 1981, he spent a season at Shropshire,[8] and retired at the end of the summer.