Kevin Briggs (cricketer) explained

Kevin Briggs
Fullname:Kevin David Briggs
Birth Date:27 January 1939
Birth Place:Dunedin, New Zealand
Death Place:Hororata, Otago, New Zealand
Batting:Right-handed
Club1:Otago
Year1:1959/60
Date:6 May 2016
Source:http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36511.html ESPNcricinfo

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kevin Briggs . 5 May 2016 . ESPNCricinfo.
  2. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21522/21522.html Kevin Briggs
  3. McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 25. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.