Full name Charles Clover-Brown 1926–1933 Buckinghamshire Batting style Right-hand Name Charles Clover-Brown | Bowling style Leg break Role Cricket Player 1935/1936 Ceylon Education Harrow School | |
Born 18 September 1907 ( 1907-09-18 ) Brentford, Middlesex, England Died October 6, 1982, Hove, United Kingdom | ||
Charles Clover-Brown (18 September 1907 – 6 October 1982) was an English cricketer. Brown was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. He was born in Brentford, Middlesex and was educated at Harrow School, where he represented and captained the school cricket team.
Clover-Brown made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1926 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. Clover-Brown played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1926 to 1933, which included 10 Minor Counties Championship matches.
Clover-Brown made his first-class debut for Dr J Rockwood's Europeans XI against Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI in Colombo in December 1930. In this match, he scored 27 runs in the Europeans first-innings before being dismissed by Phiroze Palia, while in their second-innings he scored a single run before being dismissed by Mushtaq Ali. He played his second first-class match 5 years later, playing for Ceylon against the Indian University Occasionals. In this match, he scored 100* in the Ceylon first-innings, while in their second-innings he scored 16 runs before being dismissed by Dev Puri.
He later served as President of Old Harrovians F.C., obtaining the post in 1963. Clover-Brown died in Hove, Sussex on 6 October 1982.