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Alistair Duncan Brown (born 11 February 1970), commonly known as Ali Brown, is a former English who played for Surrey County Cricket Club, before moving to Nottinghamshire for the 2009 season. He was nicknamed "Lordy", in allusion to Ted Dexter (who was known as "Lord Ted") because of his aggressively big-hitting, confident batting style. He was a right-hand bat and occasional right-arm off-break bowler, who made 16 One Day International appearances for England between 1996 and 2001, with a best of 118.
Brown scored over 15,000 runs in first-class cricket following his debut in 1992. An equally prolific one day player with over 11,000 runs, he also set the then world record List A score of 268 in 2002, a record that stood for two decades. Brown is the first player in the history of List A cricket to make two double centuries.
Alistair Brown mostly opened for Surrey in one day cricket, as opposed to his usual Championship batting position of number 5. He holds the record for the highest score ever made in the Sunday League, amassing 203 for Surrey v Hampshire at the Woodbridge Road ground in Guildford in 1997 in a 40 overs a side match. He scored his first 100 off 56 balls, made 150 off 84 and 200 from 118 with 19 fours and 11 sixes. In the final of the inaugural Twenty/20 cup at Trent Bridge in 2003 Brown scored a match winning innings of 55* from just 34 balls in Surrey's victory over Warwickshire. In the 2004 final at Edgbaston he hit 64 from 41 balls in vain as Surrey lost to Leicestershire. He hit 30 sixes in one day cricket in 2006, second only to Cameron White.
He started the 2007 season with a century in just 50 balls against Gloucestershire at the Oval in the Friends Provident competition (50 overs a side), the 7th quickest century in English one day cricket and the 12th fastest of all time. He set a new record partnership of 294, in less than 34 overs, for any wicket in one day cricket for Surrey with James Benning, beating his own record of 289 with Ian Ward. He passed 150 runs in just 81 balls and scored 176 in 97 balls, with 8 sixes and 20 fours before missing a reverse sweep. The scorer of 19 one day centuries, he is one of the few contemporary English batsmen to have scored 10,000 runs in list A one-day cricket.
Up to the start of the 2008 English season Brown had scored 14,705 runs in first-class cricket at an average of 43.50 with 44 centuries and a highest score of 295 not out against Leicestershire at Oakham School in 2000. Ali Brown has taken 2 first-class wickets with his off spin, taken 236 catches, mostly at slip, and is responsible for one first-class stumping as a substitute wicket-keeper. In 2004, with a century against Lancashire, he completed the feat of scoring a first-class century against every other English county.
He played in the Surrey team that won the County Championship in 1999, 2000 and 2002 as well the English domestic one day league in 1996 and 2003 and the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1997 and 2001. He was a member of the side which won the County Championship Division 2 title in 2006 and was rewarded with another contract, being described by coach Alan Butcher as 'a great servant of the club'. Matthew Reed records that "for sheer entertainment value, there are very, very few to match him in the county game."
He signed a two-year contract with Nottinghamshire covering the 2009 and 2010 seasons. In 2010 the side won the County Championship, to add to the three Championships he had won with Surrey in 1999, 2000 and 2002. After continuing with Nottinghamshire for the 2011 season, in August he announced his intention to retire as a player at the end of the season. Ali Brown announces retirement Retrieved 21 December 2018
In November 2011 he returned to Surrey as second team coach. He left the club at the end of the 2016 season. Ali Brown Leaves Surrey Retrieved 21 December 2016
Brown has appeared as a regular pundit on Racing Post greyhound racing TV.
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