Brown: I'm not going anywhere (From Daily Echo)

Brown: I'm not going anywhere

9:20am Monday 22nd September 2008 in Sport By Simon Walter, Senior Sports Reporter

MICHAEL Brown has insisted that this week’s big match against Nottinghamshire will NOT be his last for Hampshire.

The 28-year-old is Hampshire’s leading Championship run-scorer for the second successive season and was reported to be on the verge of a move to relegated Surrey over the weekend.

Surrey are in a state of flux on and off the pitch and are believed to want Brown to open the batting with Scott Newman as they prepare for what they hope will be a promotion-winning season next year.

Brown, who signed for Hampshire from Surrey’s arch-rivals Middlesex in 2004, is keen to follow James Bruce’s path to a career in the City.

Playing at The Oval would ensure he does not have to travel far for work experience, but he has laughed off the speculation.

He said: “Cricket is becoming like football with all the transfer talk. I’m under contract to Hampshire next year and am not going anywhere.”

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