Wisden overview
Until Melvyn Betts and Steve Harmison came along, Brown was to Durham what Muttiah Muralitharan is to Sri Lanka: their hitman. And, when injury allows, he remains the most consistent member of their pace attack, getting the ball to swing both ways with his gangling left-arm seamers, and regularly claiming 50 victims a season on the conducive Chester-le-Street tracks. England took note and chose him in 1996 for the first Test against Pakistan. He trapped Aamir Sohail with his 10th delivery, but struggled to find swing after that and was harshly ditched for the next game. Brown, one of county cricket's last exponents of the droopy moustache, began his career at Northamptonshire, but was underused and moved to his native Durham in 1992. His batting ability is best reflected by the fact that he came in below Alan Mullally in his only Test. Lawrence Booth

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