Charles Brune (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Matanzas, Matanzas Province, Cuba
About Charles Brune (cricketer)
- Charles Julius Brune (16 April 1843 – 13 January 1877) was a 19th-century amateur cricketer.
- Born in Matanzas, Cuba, Brune first boarded at Godolphin School in Hammersmith, London, and later progressed to the University of Cambridge, where he attended Caius and Downing Colleges.
- Having played for an All-England Eleven as early as the 1863 season, whilst at Cambridge he was a regular player for the university's cricket team, playing fourteen first-class and numerous other matches for the side between 1866 and 1870.
- A medium-fast round-arm bowler, Brune was quite successful in his appearances for Cambridge, taking 57 wickets at an average of 14.28, including four five-wicket hauls.
- His best bowling figures, 8/31, came against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) during the 1869 season, while in the 1867 edition of The University Match (held annually against Oxford), he took 5/64.Brune had first played county matches for Middlesex during the 1866 season, and was a regular player for the side into the early 1870s.
- Later becoming a member of the MCC, he also played regularly for composite and regional teams, as well as local club teams.
- As the holder of amateur status, Brune occasionally featured in "Gentlemen" sides, making an appearance for "Gentlemen of the South" during the 1875 season, a team captained by W.
- G.
- Grace.
- His last appearance at first-class level was that year's edition of the Gentlemen v.
- Players fixture; he did not bowl during the game, with Grace and his cousin, Walter Gilbert, taking 17 wickets.
- Brune died at Boulogne, France, in January 1877, aged 33.
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