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Full name Vaughan Raymond Brown
Born November 3, 1959, Christchurch, Canterbury
Current age 48 years 301 days
Major teams New Zealand,Auckland,Canterbury
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
2
3
1
51
36*
25.50
164
31.09
0
0
3
0
3
0
ODIs
3
3
0
44
32
14.66
85
51.76
0
0
3
0
2
0
First-class
83
136
17
3485
161*
29.28
6
19
49
0
List A
52
49
8
799
65
19.48
0
2
18
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
2
4
342
176
1
1/17
1/113
176.00
3.08
342.0
0
0
0
ODIs
3
2
66
75
1
1/24
1/24
75.00
6.81
66.0
0
0
0
First-class
83
13101
5506
190
7/28
28.97
2.52
68.9
4
2
List A
52
1834
1065
25
2/18
2/18
42.60
3.48
73.3
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v New Zealand at Brisbane, Nov 8-12, 1985 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v New Zealand at Sydney, Nov 22-26, 1985 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v New Zealand at Brisbane, Jan 17, 1988 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v New Zealand at Melbourne, Jan 22, 1988 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1978/79 - 1989/90
List A span
1978/79 - 1989/90
Profile
Vaughan Brown was a New Zealand offspinner whose only Test wicket cost Richard Hadlee a ten-for. In the first Test against Australia at Brisbane in 1985-86, a rampant Hadlee had taken the first eight wickets to fall when Brown had Geoff Lawson well caught in the deep ... by Hadlee himself. Frank Keating described it as the catch of the century, not so much for the catch itself (though it was eminently droppable) but because, with Dave Gilbert (Test average: 7) and Bob Holland (3) at Nos 10 and 11, Hadlee was well set to become only the second bowler to take all ten in a Test innings, after Jim Laker (Anil Kumble later achieved the feat against Pakistan at Delhi in 1998-99). Brown was also the first winner of the New Zealand Cricket Council's Young Player to Lord's scholarship, in 1979, although he had to return after injuring his neck in a car accident.
Rob Smyth
