Kevin Briggs
Personal information
Full name
Kevin David Briggs
Born(1939-01-27)27 January 1939
Dunedin, New Zealand
Died9 April 2004(2004-04-09) (aged 65)
Hororata, Otago, New Zealand
BattingRight-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1959/60Otago
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 6 May 2016

Kevin David Briggs (27 January 1939 9 April 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in two first-class matches for Otago during the 1959–60 season.[1]

Briggs was born at Dunedin in 1939. After playing age group cricket for Otago from 1956, he made his first-class debut for the representative side in the Christmas Day Plunket Shield fixture against Canterbury at Lancaster Park in Christchurch. After making a duck in his first innings and scoring five runs in his second, he was retained in the side for the next match against Wellington. He again made a duck and then nine runs and was not picked for any of Otago's other matches during the season.[2]

Professionally Briggs was the secretary and manager of a golf club.[3] He died at Hororata in Otago in 2004 aged 65.[1] An obituary was published in that years New Zealand Cricket Almanack.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Kevin Briggs". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  2. Kevin Briggs, CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 May 2023. (subscription required)
  3. 1 2 McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 25. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2


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