ANDREW Brown has long been known as a top order batsman with a solid defence and a good accumulator of runs, but this season he's shown another element to his game as well.
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He's shown he can be a damaging, aggressive batsman.
While St Pat's Old Boys marquee man Nic Broes stole the limelight in last Friday night's Royal Hotel Cup quarter-final win over Cavaliers as he belted 92 off 62, down the other end Brown was also doing a job.
Brown hit 41 runs off 29 deliveries - including a six and four boundaries - to help the Saints' run-rate tick along at around nine an over. He and Broes put on 86 for the first wicket in the Twenty20 clash.
"Browny did a great job at the top of the order there, I think he's really relishing the opportunity to play a bit more aggressive," Saints skipper Adam Ryan said.
"In the past he's just been that batsmen that's been rock solid and plays a defensive game, but now he's been given the opportunity to have a licence to be aggressive.
"He also took the quick singles, it was really good to see."
Brown has now scored 89 runs in that competition and has a strike rate of 109.9.
His knocks in the Saints two preliminary games saw him hit 23 off 22 (versus City Colts) and 25 off 30 (versus Centrals) opening the batting.
The Saints will meet Orange City in their Royal Hotel semi-final on February 12 and if they happen to win, Ryan knows who he'd like his men to square off with in the decider.
It's a Bathurst side featuring his good friend and Central West Wranglers captain Jameel Qureshi.
"I know it's a long way out, but a game against Rugby and us would be really nice in the final, then we'd get to play Jeema. But like the old cliché, we'll take it one game at a time," he said.
