[1] 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.
His best bowling figures of 8 for 80 came against Essex at Leyton in 1963, his victims including Trevor Bailey and Keith Fletcher.
[4] Brown was Man of the Match in the 1973 Gillette Cup final, when he became the first Gloucestershire captain to win a major trophy since 1877.
In 1982 he became Secretary of Somerset, a post that he held for six years,[1] during one of the more turbulent periods in the county’s history, with the decision not to retain Garner and Richards, and the subsequent departure of Ian Botham upsetting many of the club’s supporters.
He was nominated by the club’s supporters to be featured in the Gloucestershire Legends Walkway at the County ground which is due to be installed before the start of the 2021 season.