{"id":804651,"date":"2026-10-16T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804651\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:32:12","slug":"alan-brown-kent-championship-winning-bowler-dies-aged-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804651\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Brown: Kent championship-winning bowler dies aged 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former championship-winning Kent and England bowler Alan Brown has died aged 90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ex-miner from Mansfield took 707 first-class wickets for Kent in 237 appearances from 1957 to 1970.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown helped Kent win their first County Championship title in 57 years in 1970, which proved to be his final season. He is ranked 17th on Kent men&#8217;s all-time list of first-class wicket-takers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also won two England caps after being selected for the tour to India and Pakistan in 1961, playing one match in each country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having been stationed in Kent for National Service in 1954, Brown&#8217;s cricketing career at Canterbury came alongside a prolific non-league football career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After interest from Arsenal and Gillingham, Brown joined Gravesend and Northfleet in 1957, transforming from centre-half to centre-forward, scoring 22 goals in 43 matches across four seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also had spells at Margate, Canterbury City, Deal Town and Whitstable Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former championship-winning Kent and England bowler Alan Brown has died aged 90. The ex-miner from Mansfield took 707&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}