deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting image name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
5,332 100,119 2 12/0 258/0 1884 4 52 slow left-arm orthodox english 9 200 right-handed batsman briggs.jpg johnny briggs 1899 tests first-class true 12 december http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/9223.html 12 december 815 14,092 1884 118 2,221 1 july 1/2 10/58 33 535 johnny briggs -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

johnny briggs -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

johnny briggs -lrb- 3 october 1862 , sutton-in-ashfield , nottinghamshire , england -- 11 january 1902 , heald green , cheshire , england -rrb- was a left arm spin bowler for lancashire county cricket club between 1879 and 1900 who still stands as the second-highest wicket-taker in the county 's history after brian statham .
in the early days of test cricket , briggs was one of the most successful bowlers , proving deadly whenever wickets were affected by rain , whilst both for his county and country his batting -- though at times too careless -- was very useful .
he was the first bowler in test cricket to take 100 wickets , and held the record of most wickets in test cricket on two occasions , the first in 1895 and again from 1898 until 1904 , when he was succeeded by hugh trumble .
he toured australia a record six times , a feat only equalled by colin cowdrey .
briggs was a notably short man at about five feet five or 165 centimetres .
briggs ' skill lay in his ability to vary the flight and pace of the ball as well as in achieving prodigious spin on the primitive pitches of the nineteenth century .
as a batsman , briggs was capable of hitting very effectively , but as time went by an eagerness to punish every ball set in and led to a decline .
