Freddie Brown (cricketer)
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | leg spin; medium pace seamers | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 22 | 335 |
| Runs scored | 734 | 13325 |
| Batting average | 25.31 | 27.36 |
| 100s/50s | 0/5 | 22/56 |
| Top score | 79 | 212 |
| Balls bowled | 3260 | 65967 |
| Wickets | 45 | 1221 |
| Bowling average | 31.06 | 26.21 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | 62 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 11 |
| Best bowling | 5/49 | 8/34 |
| Catches/stumpings | 22/0 | 212/0 |
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Test debut: 29 July 1931 |
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Frederick ("Freddie") Richard Brown MBE (born in Lima, Peru on 16 December 1910, died in Ramsbury, Wiltshire on 24 July 1991) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Surrey, Northamptonshire and England. He was educated at The Leys School Cambridge.
Brown was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1933 and president of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1971/2. He was also a BBC radio cricket commentator and summariser.
He was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1939.
| Preceded by: George Mann |
English national cricket captain 1949 |
Followed by: Norman Yardley |
| Preceded by: Norman Yardley |
English national cricket captain 1950-1951 |
Followed by: Nigel Howard |
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