Jack Brown (cricketer)

Jack Brown

Brown in the 1890s
Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling	Leg-break
International information
National side	English
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 8 383 Runs scored 470 17,920 Batting average 36.15 30.52 100s/50s 1/1 29/76 Top score 140 311 Balls bowled 35 9,391 Wickets – 190 Bowling average – 29.61 5 wickets in innings – 4 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling – 6–51 Catches/stumpings 7/– 230/–
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John Thomas Brown (20 August 1869 – 4 November 1904) known as Jack, was an English professional cricketer, who played primarily as a batsman. He was Yorkshire's first great opening batsman, a lineage continued by Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Geoff Boycott. He took five wickets in an innings on three occasions with his leg breaks, but except in 1901 (when he claimed 57 wickets) he generally bowled little.

Born in Driffield, Yorkshire, Brown made his first-class debut for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1889. Here he formed a successful opening partnership with John Tunnicliffe. From 1895 to 1903, he passed 1,000 runs each season, and in 1897 made his highest score of 311, against Sussex at Bramall Lane, following it up with 300 the following year against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. In this match he added 554 for the first wicket with Tunnicliffe, which was then a record partnership for any wicket. He shared 19 century stands with Tunnicliffe in all. He is the only batsman to have scored two triple hundreds for Yorkshire. In 1900, he made 163 to help the Players to a startling two-wicket victory over the Gentlemen, successfully chasing a huge target of 501.

Brown's form in 1894 was such to earn him both a mention as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1895, and a Test debut against Australia at Sydney in 1894/95. He kept his place for all five Test matches, and after England has suffered a crushing innings defeat in the fourth Test (also at Sydney) the teams went into the fifth and final Test at Melbourne with the series level at 2–2. Needing 297 to win, England fell to 28/2, but then Brown and Albert Ward put on 210 before Brown was out for 140, his only Test century. Brown reached his 50 in 28 minutes – still a record – and 100 in 91, then the fastest Test century. England won the game by six wickets and the Ashes 3–2.He was the first batsman in test history to score a test century in the 4th innings of a test match