Player profile

Full name Graeme Brown
Born Guildford, Surrey
Nickname Shorts, Browneye
Batting style Right-hand middle-order
Bowling style Offspin
Height 5 ft 8 in
Clubs Cranleigh, East Horsley
School XI 1993 to 1995 (1995 captain)
OC Career 1993 to date

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat		Inns		NO		HS		Runs		Ave		50		100		Ct		St
OCCC	89		75		13		147*		1207		19.47		3		1		21		0

Bowling averages

	Overs		Mdns		Runs		Wkts		Ave		Best		5WI		SR		Econ
OCCC	559.0		74		2213		82		26.99		7-32		1		40.9		3.1

Notes

Major Tours: Antigua 1997, Sri Lanka 1999, Kenya 2001

Profile

Graeme Brown is the closest we have to a genuine bits and pieces player. Originally seen as a more than useful offspinning prospect, Graeme's bowling did not develop as expected, possibly not helped by his fragile confidence and the reluctance of captains of his league team to bowl him. However, he remains a useful flat offspinner who is more than capable of producing good performances, but not of doing so regularly. His batting also suffers from a lack of self-belief, but he is courageous, not worried by the short ball (as is the case with many shorter batsman) and in possession of a wide array of strokes. At the top of the order he can build an innings but he is equally capable of accelerating the run-rate at the death. A shadow of the roly-poly character who joined the club in 1996, Graeme is a good outfielder - that is the best place for him as his incessant chattering usually drives not only the batsman but often his team-mates to distraction. A seasoned tourist, Browneye's nadir came in Kenya off the field and in Antigua on it, when he became the only OC to be hit clean out of a Test ground. Away from the club he has emerged from Ian Botham's teaboy to hold down a senior production role at Sky Sports.

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