Brown was a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler with what Wisden Cricketers' Almanack termed "a dangerous swerve".
[2] Brought up in Darlington, he played club cricket in North East England before joining Warwickshire in the early 1930s.
[5] Wisden described the bowling: "Maintaining an accurate length, swinging the ball, and getting plenty of pace off the pitch, he finished off the innings for 128 just before three o'clock.
His performance of taking eight wickets for a trifle over four runs apiece, which helped so largely in the victory, gained him his county cap.
"[6] He had another five-wicket innings in his next match, but at the end of July 1933 he was unable to bowl in the game against Sussex because of injury and he did not recover in time to play again that season.