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Jim Higgs

Australia
Jim Higgs
INTL CAREER: 1978 - 1981

Full Name

James Donald Higgs

Born

July 11, 1950, Kyabram, Victoria

Age

73y 294d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Legbreak Googly

Other

Coach

With plenty of what Shane Warne calls "rip", and a good wrong'un, Jim Higgs was Australia's best legspinner between Richie Benaud and Warne. His misfortune was to play at a time when wrist-spin was nearly extinct, thought to be the preserve only of the eccentric and the profligate, and so to find selectors and captains with little empathy with his guiles. He was chiefly and unfairly known in his time for having been bowled by the only ball he faced on the 1975 tour of England. He did bowl Victoria to a Sheffield Shield, later became a Test selector, and also taught the young Warne how to bowl a flipper.
Gideon Haigh