He then got rid of Test hopefuls Usman Khawaja (0) and Callum Ferguson (10).
One, Abdul Basit Usman, may have been killed in a recent drone attack in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Brown claimed 5-19 as Cambridgeshire were bowled out for 110, with Usman Afzaal taking 3-4 in support.
Usman Afzaal and Chris Schofield edged Surrey along and were left needing 12 off the final over.
Clarke's fitness means Usman Khawaja is left out, while paceman Peter Siddle gets the nod over Doug Bollinger.
Usman Khan, 75, was at the polling booth soon after 0700 local time.
Usman Khan, 22, and Nazam Hussain, 27, were ordered to serve at least eight years of their new 16-year sentences.
Vice-captain Michael Clarke will be the skipper in Sydney next week, with Usman Khawaja coming in for his Test debut.
But Saladeh Mohammed Usman, a large, energetic woman in a spectacularly bright pink dress, insisted the government was doing its best.
The ordeal proved embarrassing for Usman Sharif, a candidate for the hard-line religious Jamaat-e-Islami party, in the southern city of Karachi.
Finally he gave spinner Ollie Rayner a return catch but Ali Brown and Usman Afzaal added a rapid 141 in 32 overs.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Usman Riaz.
Stephen Peters (92) and Usman Afzaal (72) took their stand to 153 before the hosts lost 9-86 to be all out for 270.
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Should he fail to pass muster on Wednesday, uncapped New South Wales batsman Usman Khawaja will be in line for a dramatic Test bow.
Scott Newman, Mark Butcher and Usman Afzaal all came close to half centuries but Chris Tremlett's 5-67 ensured the visitors were all out for 278.
Chris Rogers edged Edmondson's off-cutter to Adshead but Stephen Peters and Usman Afzaal put together an unbeaten 61 partnership to ensure Northants stayed in command.
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On top of the leadership changes, Australia are likely to hand debuts to two young players in Sydney - batsman Usman Khawaja and spinner Michael Beer.
Usman Khawaja at number three, and Michael Beer, the solitary spinner, who has played only seven first-class games in his life, and never at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Alistair Brown and Usman Afzaal steadied the ship with a 59-run partnership before Kaneria dismissed Afzaal for 25 in his first over, with Bopara taking a superb running catch.
Hughes's wretched performances in Ashes cricket continued when he nicked a good delivery from Bresnan to Prior, whereupon Michael Clarke came out to join Usman Khawaja in the middle.
The African contingent is expected to be bolstered to 7, 900, including 2, 200 troops promised by Chad, AP news agency quotes a Nigerian military official, Col Shehu Usman Abdulkadir, as saying.
"There is no Nigerian soldier that goes out on the streets to just kill innocent Nigerians, " Col Sani Kukasheka Usman told the BBC at the First Division headquarters in Kaduna.
Mr Usman had only just returned to the bank after being suspended by General Abubakar's predecessor, the late Sani Abacha, for objecting too strongly to his raiding of the country's coffers.
It has also made some promises about economic policy and, to make these easier to believe, the general has appointed Ismaila Usman, the deputy governor of the central bank, as finance minister.
His fortunes contrasted with those of debutant Usman Khawaja, the 24-year-old left-hander displaying plenty of confidence before coming unstuck late on and top-edging a sweep off Graeme Swann to depart for 37.
The quartet vice captain Shane Watson, James Pattinson, Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Johnson was banned for failing to complete an exercise given to them by team management after defeat in the second Test at Hyderabad.
Together with Ramprakash, Usman Afzaal steadied the innings as the pair pushed the score past three figures, but in the 41st over with the score on 123, Afzaal was beaten by James Tomlinson and trapped leg-before for 20.
The forces of change and optimism like Ms Usman, or the clan militias and extremists hovering in the background, waiting for the new government to run out of money and momentum and poised to push Somalia back towards anarchy?
But, on the same day his main rivals for a middle-order berth in the 17-man squad, Usman Khawaja and Callum Ferguson, failed to fire for the second time against the England attack in Hobart, Hussey came good at the MCG.
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