David Wyndham James Brown (26 February 1942 – 17 August 2021) was an English

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er. He played for

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between 1964 and 1967. Brown was a middle-order batsman. On his first-class debut in 1964 he top-scored with a solid 50 in Gloucestershire's first innings of 139 against

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. He made his only first-class

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against

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in 1965 when he scored 142 to avert defeat after Gloucestershire had followed on. He was Gloucestershire's top scorer with 59 in the first innings of the low-scoring match against Pakistan in 1967.

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