Brown hangs up his bat

Nottinghamshire batsman Ali Brown has confirmed he will retire from professional cricket at the end of the season.

Notts batsman to retire at end of current campaign

Nottinghamshire batsman Ali Brown has confirmed he will retire from professional cricket at the end of the County Championship season. The 41-year-old played 16 one-day internationals for England between 1996 and 2001 and has scored 16,898 first-class runs. Brown spent most of his career with Surrey before moving to Nottinghamshire in 2009, winning the County Championship with both. He will perhaps be best remembered for his world record innings of 268 against Glamorgan in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy back in 2002, and he will be available for selection until the end of Nottinghamshire's season. He said: "I always believed that the day my age exceeds my batting average it would be time to consider calling time on my career. "I've made a lot of lifelong friends at Trent Bridge and The Oval. I've had a very enjoyable career at two great clubs and I've managed to win Championships at both of them, which is something I could have only dreamed of when I started my career."