Josh Brown’s mother was left awestruck after her son lit up the Carrara Oval in Queensland by smashing a hundred in the Challenger of the Big Bash League (BBL) 2023-24.
Playing for Brisbane Heat, Brown scored 140 runs off 57 balls with the help of 10 fours and 12 sixes against the Adelaide Strikers, who were on a five-match winning streak.
On the back of his knock, the Heat scored 214 for the loss of 7 wickets, after which they bowled the Strikers out for 160 to win the match by 54 runs. The Heat also advanced to the final where they will face Sydney Sixers on January 24.
“He is just the most amazing lad, and I am so proud of him,” Brown’s mother said to sports presenter Ern Holland.
Brown’s mother, however, was not aware that his son made the record for the highest score in the history of BBL playoffs.
“Oh My God, that’s amazing,” Brown’s mother said in excitement after Holland talked about the record made by the batter.
Brown’s mother said that the cricketer excelled his all sports, which also included golf and soccer.
“He has been amazing with bat and ball all his life. He used to play golf, scored 10 goals in a soccer game when he was 8,” she added.
Brown also racked up the third-highest individual score in the history of the BBL. The swashbucking batter hit the joint second-fastest hundred in BBL history off 41 balls. Apart from that, he set the record for the most sixes in an innings in the BBL.
In 22 T20s, the 30-year-old Brown has scored 571 runs at an average of 25.95, but most importantly, at a strike-rate of 150.65 with one century and one half-century to his name.
Brown made his BBL debut last year, where he impressed Adam Gilchrist, who called him his ‘new favourite player’. Brown is also a bat manufacturer as he works at the Cooper Cricket Warehouse in northern Brisbane.
