Lives in Cricket No 2 - Johnny Briggs

Contents Chapter One: The Last Rites 4 Chapter Two: Where it all began 8 Chapter Three: From Widnes to Old Trafford 12 Chapter Four: Touring Australia for the first time 22 Chapter Five: Coming of age as a cricketer 29 Chapter Six: Taking a hundred wickets for the first time 39 Chapter Seven: Sharing the Championship 48 Chapter Eight: A Test hat-trick 52 Chapter Nine: Match double against Yorkshire 56 Chapter Ten: Mixed benefit 62 Chapter Eleven: Touring with Stod 66 Chapter Twelve: Bowling Lancashire to their first official title 69 Chapter Thirteen: Slipping alarmingly 77 Chapter Fourteen: Seizure at the Music Hall 78 Chapter Fifteen: What are we to make of him? 87 Appendix One: After Briggs’ death 93 Appendix Two: Cricketers from Sutton-in-Ashfield 96 Appendix Three: Career Statistics 99 Acknowledgements and Bibliography 106