John Higgins (cricketer)
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Full name | John Bernard Higgins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Slow left arm orthodox | 31 December 1885||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1912–1930 | Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1922/23–1928/29 | Europeans (India) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 10 June 1912 Worcestershire v Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 27 May 1930 Worcestershire v Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 18 September 2007 |
John Bernard Higgins (31 December 1885 – 3 January 1970) was an English
Higgins was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he was in the cricket XI.[1] In his teens and early twenties, Higgins played
He made his first-class cricket debut for Worcestershire against Leicestershire at Amblecote in 1912. Only one day's play was possible in the match, during which Higgins scored 5 and bowled five wicketless overs for 34. It was to be eight years before he played first-class cricket again.
His next game for Worcestershire came against
Higgins played not at all in 1921, but in 1922 he had a considerably more successful time of it, scoring 605 runs at 16.35 – albeit with only one fifty – and taking 14 wickets, his highest season's aggregate, at 44.07. This year also saw him claim his only five-wicket haul, 5–72 against Gloucestershire at Gloucester, restricting the home team to 202 in their first innings. His performance was to no avail, however: Worcestershire were bowled out for 58 and 52, Mills and Parker bowling unchanged throughout the match, and lost by an innings.[4]
Higgins was in India during the 1922–23 English winter, playing four first-class games including two for Europeans in the
Meanwhile, Higgins' English career was barely noticeable: he played twice in each of the 1924 and 1925 seasons, and not at all in 1926. The next three years, however, were to prove by some margin his most successful in the game. He played 19 or 20 matches for Worcestershire every summer, and hit one century in each, the highest of these being the first: 123 against
Higgins played three final matches for Worcestershire in 1930, without conspicuous success. By this time he had already umpired two first-class games in India in 1926–27, and in 1933–34 he stood in two more, including the third Test between India and England at Madras. He died in England, in a nursing home in Malvern, aged 84.[1]
His younger brother Harry played nearly 100 times for Worcestershire in the 1920s.
References
- ^ a b Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1971.
- ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
- ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
- ^ "Gloucestershire v Worcestershire in 1922". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 September 2007.