# Harry Higgins

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{{Short description|English cricketer (1894–1979)}}
{{About|the English cricketer|the Australian-American rugby player|Harry Higgins (rugby)}}
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| name              = Harry Higgins
|             image = File:Harry Higgins of Worcs.jpg
| caption           =
| batting           = Right-handed 
| bowling           = 
| columns           = 1
| column1           = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches1          = 98 
| runs1             = 3,437
| bat avg1          = 20.45
| 100s/50s1         = 4/13
| top score1        = 137[*](/source/not_out)
| hidedeliveries    = true
| catches/stumpings1= 54/–
| source            = http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30215/30215.html CricketArchive
| date              = 8 November
| year              = 2022
}}
'''Harry Leslie Higgins''' (24 February 1894 – 19 September 1979) was an English [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket)er who played 98 matches in the 1920s. All but one of these were for [Worcestershire](/source/Worcestershire_County_Cricket_Club); the exception was a [Gentlemen v Players](/source/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](/source/wicket-keeper) for a single match — in which he scored 99 — in 1921.

Higgins made his debut for Worcestershire against [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club) at [Taunton](/source/County_Ground%2C_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](/source/not_out) he hit against [Sussex](/source/Sussex_County_Cricket_Club) at [Worcester](/source/New_Road%2C_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](/source/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club) that {{As of|2007|lc=on}} remains Worcestershire's heaviest first-class defeat.
<ref>{{cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Worcestershire/Team_Records/Largest_Defeat_by_Innings.html | title=Largest Margin of Innings Defeat | accessdate=2007-05-05 | publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>

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](/source/batting_average_(cricket)), including two centuries. The higher of these, 133 against [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club) at [Leyton](/source/Leyton_Cricket_Ground), came in a somewhat unusual match. Essex, batting first, had been dismissed for 90 ([Preece](/source/Charles_Preece) taking a career-best 7-35) but had nevertheless run out easy winners thanks to the [all-round](/source/all-rounder) talents of [Johnny Douglas](/source/Johnny_Douglas), who made 123[*](/source/not_out)  and took 14 wickets.
<ref>{{cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10054.html | title=Essex v Worcestershire in 1921 | accessdate=2007-05-05 | publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> Higgins made his career best score of 137* in May 1922 at New Road against [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire_County_Cricket_Club), 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](/source/Bournville) (then in [Warwickshire](/source/Warwickshire), now [Birmingham](/source/Birmingham)); he died at the age of 85 in [Malvern](/source/Malvern%2C_Worcestershire), [Worcestershire](/source/Worcestershire).

His older brother [John](/source/John_Higgins_(cricketer)) played more than 100 times for Worcestershire, and [umpired](/source/umpire_(cricket)) one [Test match](/source/Test_cricket).

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cricinfo|id=14789}}

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Category:English cricketers
Category:Worcestershire cricketers
Category:Gentlemen cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Birmingham, West Midlands
Category:20th-century English sportsmen

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