 In the second of those, against Guyana, he scored 51 runs, his maiden first-class fifty.His only other half-century came in March 1979, when he made 60 runs out of a team total of 496 against the Leeward Islands.Despite playing exclusively as a batsman, Browne finished with a first-class batting average of only 16.64 (from 15 matches), and a List A average of 11.80 (from 12 matches).