Vaughan Brown

Vaughan Raymond Brown (born 3 November 1959) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in two Test matches and three One Day Internationals during the mid-1980s.

Vaughan Brown
Personal information
Full nameVaughan Raymond Brown
Born3 November 1959 (1959-11-03) (age 61)
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 156)8 November 1985 v Australia
Last Test22 November 1985 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 59)17 January 1988 v Australia
Last ODI22 January 1988 v Australia
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 2 3 83 52
Runs scored 51 44 3,485 799
Batting average 25.50 14.66 29.28 19.48
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 6/19 0/2
Top score 36* 32 161* 65
Balls bowled 342 66 13,101 1,065
Wickets 1 1 190 25
Bowling average 176.00 75.00 28.97 42.60
5 wickets in innings 0 0 4 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 2 0
Best bowling 1/17 1/24 7/28 2/18
Catches/stumpings 3/– 2/– 49/– 18/–
Source: Cricinfo, 4 February 2017

Domestic career

Brown was a left-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. In a first-class career spanning from 1978 to 1989, he played 83 matches for Canterbury and Auckland and took 190 wickets. He was the first recipient of the New Zealand Cricket Council's Young Player to Lord's scholarship, in 1979, but his tenure there was cut short due to an injury sustained in a car accident.

In the early 1980s, Brown figured highly in both the batting and bowling averages in New Zealand domestic cricket. In 1982–83, he was second to Richard Hadlee in the national bowling averages.

International career

He was picked for the Young New Zealand tour of Zimbabwe in 1984 and the following year he went with the full Test team to Australia. Selected for the first Test at Brisbane, he batted steadily at No 7, took the one wicket that Hadlee did not take in Australia's first innings collapse and held three catches as New Zealand recorded their first-ever victory in Australia by a margin of an innings and 41 runs. But he had no success on a spinner's wicket in the second Test at Sydney and was dropped for the subsequent matches.

Brown never regained his Test place, but in 1988 he was picked for the New Zealand team that contested the World Series ODIs, again in Australia. This time there was little success for either Brown or the team, with all three matches lost. He retired from regular cricket after this season, though he appeared in one further first-class match in 1989/90.

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