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Darryl Brown is no spring chicken, although he did make a sprightly one-day debut against Zimbabwe in December 2001, two days short of his 28th birthday. Brown joined the West Indies tour of Sri Lanka amid an injury crisis, and took 3 for 21 in ten overs of slippery medium-pace, helping to reduce the Zimbabweans to 57 for 7. He was certainly a surprise pick. He came to international cricket late, with just five first-class matches under his belt, and had failed to take a wicket for Trinidad in the four Red Stripe Bowl matches that preceded the tour. But he kept his place for the historic series against Pakistan in Sharjah in 2001-02, ahead of more out-and-out speedsters such as Jermaine Lawson, partly on the strength of his batting potential. Brown has plied his trade in England, and inadvertently led to Staines & Laleham being demoted in the Middlesex League after they played him under an assumed name. Andrew Miller

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