Kenneth Higgs was an English fast-medium bowler, who was most successful as the opening partner to Brian Statham with Lancashire in the 1960s.
18 Facts About Ken Higgs
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Ken Higgs was signed to the club from July 1954 to 1959, but never made a first-team appearance.
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Ken Higgs caused instant notice, taking 7 for 36 against Hampshire in his first County Championship match.
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Ken Higgs took over 100 wickets in each season from 1959 to 1960 but was one of the few cricketers to take 100 wickets in a season at over thirty runs each in 1961, and he ceased to be an automatic choice.
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Ken Higgs was selected for the last Test at The Oval.
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In 1966, against the West Indies, Ken Higgs established himself as England's first-choice opening bowler with 24 wickets for under 26 runs.
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Ken Higgs's partnership with John Snow for the tenth wicket of 128 was a record for England at home.
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Ken Higgs was named one of the Cricketers of the Year by Wisden.
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Ken Higgs was later selected for one match of the Ashes series the following year but was never selected again.
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Ken Higgs retired from County cricket at the end of the 1969 season, and played for Rishton in the Lancashire League.
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Ken Higgs played regularly until the end of the 1979 season, for which he was appointed captain.
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Ken Higgs was the fifth-highest Englishman in the bowling averages that season at forty-two.
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Ken Higgs was part of Leicestershire's County Championship-winning side in 1975.
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Ken Higgs took 308 List 'A' wickets for his adopted county.
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Ken Higgs played once more against Somerset, without taking a wicket.
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Ken Higgs took 100 wickets in a season five times and over 90 twice.
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Ken Higgs took 42 List-A wickets in both 1975 and 1977.
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Ken Higgs was one of ten members of Leicestershire's first County Championship-winning team in 1975, and he had a road named after him by the city council in Leicester.