Harry Higgins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHarry Higgins
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1894
Place of Birth: Bournville, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 19-Sep-1979
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Harry Higgins
- Harry Leslie Higgins (24 February 1894 – 19 September 1979) was an English first-class cricketer who played 98 matches in the 1920s.
- All but one of these were for Worcestershire; the exception was a Gentlemen v Players game in 1922 in which bad weather meant that Higgins (playing for the Gentlemen) did not get to bat.
- He stood in as Worcestershire captain for one game in 1923, and acted as wicket-keeper for a single match — in which he scored 99 — in 1921. Higgins made his debut for Worcestershire against Somerset at Taunton in June 1920; he made 0 and 33 in a heavy innings defeat.
- He played a further 10 games for Worcestershire that season, but Higgins' only half-century during the year was the 64 not out he hit against Sussex at Worcester in July: a game in which only 80 overs were possible.
- The other nine games in which Higgins played were all lost by one of the weakest of all Worcestershire sides; these defeats included the innings-and-340-run demolition by Warwickshire that as of 2007 remains Worcestershire's heaviest first-class defeat. He was a regular in the county side in 1921 and 1922, and in both years he made over 1,000 first-class runs.
- In 1921 he hit a career-best 1,182 runs at 28.82, including two centuries.
- The higher of these, 133 against Essex at Leyton, came in a somewhat unusual match.
- Essex, batting first, had been dismissed for 90 (Preece taking a career-best 7-35) but had nevertheless run out easy winners thanks to the all-round talents of Johnny Douglas, who made 123* and took 14 wickets. Higgins made his career best score of 137* in May 1922 at New Road against Lancashire, but again Worcestershire lost, this time by an innings. In 1923 and 1924, Higgins appeared in 15 matches each season, but suffered a severe loss of form, scoring only 728 runs in 55 innings, and with just a single fifty each year.
- After that he never played regularly again, although he turned out on a handful of occasions from 1925 until his final retirement in 1927.
- His last game was against Warwickshire at Worcester: in a drawn match, Higgins scored 11 in his only innings. Higgins was born in Bournville (then in Warwickshire, now Birmingham); he died at the age of 85 in Malvern, Worcestershire. His older brother John played more than 100 times for Worcestershire, and umpired one Test match.
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