Brian Christen (27 November 1926 – 29 December 2000) was a Canadian

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: a left-arm fast-medium bowler. He was born in

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, England, but after emigrating played five first-class games for

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. Christen's innings return of 7/80 against MCC at Armour Heights,

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in 1951 remained the best first-class figures for Canada until John Davison took 8-61 against the

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in the 2004

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. Christen also played in the Canadians' four games against English

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and the

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, his most notable scalp probably that of

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, whom he bowled for a

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* Canadian cricketers Cricketers from Bradford 1926 births 2000 deaths {{Canada-cricket-bio-stub