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]