Michael Benjamin Brain was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Glamorgan

Glamorgan County Cricket Club

Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire . Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County...

. He was born in Cyntwell and died in Trelleck.

Brain's cricketing career started when he played for the Repton XI in 1928 and 1929, while his club career saw him play for such teams as Cardiff and South Wales.

Brain appeared in one first-class match, during the 1930 season, against Oxford University

Oxford University Cricket Club

Oxford University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team, representing the University of Oxford. It plays its home games at the University Parks in Oxford, England...

. He scored 9 runs in the first innings of the match, but was caught out for a duck in the second innings.

Seventeen years after his only first-class appearance, he played one game for Glamorgan Second XI. Brain later became chairman of Brains Brewery

Brains Brewery

Brains is a regional brewery founded in 1882 in Cardiff, Wales by Samuel Arthur Brain. The company owns over 250 pubs across South Wales, Mid Wales, the West Country and particularly in Cardiff...

 between 1955 and his death in 1971. Brain's brother, Pat

Pat Brain

John Henry Patrick 'Pat' Brain was a Welsh cricketer. Brain was a right-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicketkeeper. He was born at Caerau, Glamorgan....

, father William

William Brain

William Henry Brain was an English cricketer and footballer: a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and MCC in the early 1890s; as well as keeping goal for Headington United...

 and uncle Joseph all played first-class cricket.

External links

• Michael Brain at Cricket Archive