William Higgins
Personal information
Full name
William Lawrence Higgins
Born(1888-11-15)15 November 1888
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Died3 July 1968(1968-07-03) (aged 79)
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1910/11–1920/21Otago
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 14 May 2016

William Lawrence Higgins (15 November 1888 – 3 July 1968) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played seven first-class matches for Otago between the 1910–11 and 1920–21 seasons.[1]

Higgins was born at Dunedin in 1888, the son of Lawrence Higgins, a sergeant in the New Zealand Army. The family were living in the Tuapeka area of North Otago when Higgins made his first-class debut for Otago, playing in a December 1910 match against Canterbury at Carisbrook.[2][3] He recorded a duck in his first innings and scored 17 runs in the second.[4]

After playing against Southland in 1911–12[lower-alpha 1] and against Auckland in the 1912–13 Plunket Shield, Higgins played three times during 1913–14. After serving in the New Zealand Army during World War I he played twice for the representative side in 1920–21, once against Canterbury before making his final first-class appearance against the touring Australians in March 1921. In his seven first-class matches he scored a total of 201 runs, including a highest score of 67 made against Canterbury during his final season of representative cricket.[4][5]

Higgins died at Ashburton in Mid-Canterbury in 1968. He was aged 79.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ This match is not considered first-class.

References

  1. 1 2 "William Higgins". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Local and general, Tuapeka Times, volume XLII, issue 5802, 21 December 1910, p. 3. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 19 July 2023.)
  3. ↑ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 67. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
  4. 1 2 William Higgins, CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 July 2023. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ William Lawrence Higgins, Online Cenotaph, Auckland Museum. Retrieved 19 July 2023.


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