Lives in Cricket No 2 - Johnny Briggs

Malcolm Lorimer, Johnny Remembered, 2006 Malcolm Lorimer et al, Lancashire County Cricket Club First-Class Records 1865-1998, 1999 Malcolm Lorimer and Don Ambrose, Lancashire Cricketers 1865-1988 , 1989 (ACS Publication) Mike Marqusee, Anyone but England (Second Edition), 1998 Douglas Miller, A History of Bucks County Cricket Club, 2006 (ACS Publication) Rex Pogson, Lancashire, 1952 K.S.Ranjitsinhji, The Jubilee Book of Cricket , 1897 Stanley Shaw, Sherlock Holmes at the 1902 Fifth Test , 1985 K.M.Tebay, Johnny Briggs: Ashes Century, Ashes Hat-Trick, 2006 Herbert Turner, The Life of John Briggs , 1902 Rob Wadsworth, Ashfield: The Nursery of Cricket, 2002 Peter Wynne-Thomas: England on Tour: Record of all England Cricket Tours Overseas, 1982. I have consulted other publications, including Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (various); The Cricketer (various); Cricket magazine (various); Weekly Times (various); Leeds Evening Express (various); Manchester Guardian and The Guardian (various); Manchester Evening News (various); Oldham Chronicle ; City News (various); Athletic Journal ; Athletic News Cricket Annual (various); Lillywhite’s Cricket Annual (various); Hornsea Gazette ; Lancashire CCC Yearbooks (various), and Playfair Cricket Annuals (various). In addition, I used several websites, including answers.com; cricketarchive.com ; cricinfo.com ; cricmania.com ; google.com ; icc-cricket.com; lccc.co.uk ; nottsccc.co.uk ; widnesvikings.co.uk ; wccc.co.uk ; sulekha.com; wikipedia.org , and 123india.com. My special thanks to Douglas Miller, chairman of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, who encouraged me to undertake this project and to the ACS’s indefatigable David Jeater, editor of the Lives in Cricket series, who provided me with a wealth of information on Briggs and spotted numerous errors, which thankfully have been corrected; Roger Mann, who supplied many of the pictures in the book; Don Ambrose; Malcolm Lorimer, who gave me a great deal of help with newspaper and magazine cuttings and also supplied some of the photographs; Peter Wynne-Thomas; Margaret Thomas of the National Society for Epilepsy; Widnes Vikings historian Steve Fox; Mansfield Town historian Paul Taylor; philatelist Martin Lipczer; David Atkinson; Simon Brodbeck of the Daily Express , who read the proofs and 108