With only 33 county games under his belt, you can be forgiven for never having heard of Pat Brown until recently. He set Finals Day alight with figures of 4-21 in the Pears’ semi-final against Lancashire, followed by a wicketless, but extremely economical 0-15 from four overs in the final against Sussex.

After an open event at Wellington School, where he was spotted by Worcestershire bowling coach Matt Mason, he was signed to their academy and offered a cricket scholarship at the University of Worcester. Brown, alongside the likes of Josh Tongue and Dillon Pennington, is part of a talented crop of young fast bowlers making their first forays into the Worcestershire first team.  This was Brown’s first full T20 campaign for his county.

At just 20 years of age, his rise to prominence has come in this year’s T20 Blast competition. His tally of 31 wickets in the tournament was the third highest in any T20 competition ever.

[caption id=”attachment_81728″ align=”alignnone” width=”800″] Worcestershire won the T20 Blast for the first time in their history[/caption]

Brown’s white-ball guile is underlined by his economy rate during the closing overs of an innings. According to CricViz, his economy rate of 7.21 runs per over was second only to Wahab Riaz in this year’s competition. This was no mean feat in a tournament where the average run-rate was the highest of any T20 tournament ever at 8.83 runs per over. His array of variations helped him achieve brilliant combined figures of 8-0-36-4 on Finals Day.

Whilst he was one of the stars of the T20 Blast, he has only played in five first-class matches for Worcestershire. Backing up his white-ball form in red-ball cricket will be a significant challenge.

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