Gloucester’s finest cricket product, Eric Higgins, has been named in the Australian over 60 team to tour New Zealand in February.
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To mark his selection, James Laurie hopes to organise a game in Gloucester in late January between teams made up of his former Gloucester teammates as well as players from other areas.
Higgins began playing junior cricket in Gloucester and in 1974 he was selected to attend a NSW country coaching clinic in Sydney, where he scored 101 against a Combined Green Shield team at the SCG.
He was the mainstay of Gloucester’s win in the Mid North Coast inter-district First XI competition in 1985/86, while he also scored a record four centuries for the Northern NSW Emu teams.
He later moved to Sydney where he had stints with the Randwick and Penrith clubs, where he played first grade.
Now living in Inverell, Higgins is still involved with the game and in 2014 he was made a life member of the Inverell Cricket Association.
He is captain of the New England over 60s representative team and has also represented NSW veterans.
