Lives in Cricket No 2 - Johnny Briggs

scoring the winning single in a last-wicket stand of 15 as England complete an astonishing victory. Throughout the book Holmes shows his distaste for cricket, calling it ‘a waste of time’ and describing it as an irrelevance. However, Conan Doyle himself was a cricket lover and a pretty good player to boot, appearing a number of times for MCC and playing in ten first-class fixtures in all between 1900 and 1907. After Briggs’ death 95