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12 Facts About Kenneth Higgs

1.

Kenneth Alan Higgs was an English first-class cricketer active in the 1920s who made over forty appearances for Sussex.

2.

Kenneth Higgs was known as "the Haywards Heath amateur" and was a corn merchant by profession.

3.

Kenneth Higgs made five further first-class appearances in 1920, scoring a total of 345 runs at an average of 38.33, which besides his century included two fifties.

4.

Kenneth Higgs's century came in a two-hour partnership of 188 for the third wicket with Jack Malden.

5.

Kenneth Higgs made nine first-class appearances for the county in the following season, though met with less success than in his previous two seasons, averaging 17.28 for his 242 runs, with three half centuries and a high score of 62.

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Kenneth Higgs played his greatest quantity of first-class matches in 1923, with eleven appearances all made in the County Championship.

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Kenneth Higgs equalled the success of his first two seasons in 1923, scoring 474 runs at an average of 27.88, though he failed to record a century, he did however make four half centuries.

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Kenneth Higgs played just five first-class matches in 1924, scoring 199 runs with two half centuries.

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Kenneth Higgs didn't make any first-class appearances in 1925 or 1926, with his final first-class match coming in 1927, in what was his only appearance in that seasons County Championship against Warwickshire at Cricket Field Road, Horsham.

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Kenneth Higgs made a total of 41 first-class appearances for Sussex, scoring 1,693 runs at an average of 25.65, with his score of 111 against Warwickshire being his highest.

11.

Kenneth Higgs later became the Vice-President of Sussex County Cricket Club.

12.

Kenneth Higgs died at the town of his birth on 21 January 1959.