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''For people named Jack Briggs, see Jack Briggs (disambiguation).'' Jack Briggs (8 April 1916 – 1 June 1984) was an English
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er. Briggs was a right-handed
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who bowled
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. He was born at
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,
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. Briggs made his first-class debut for
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against
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in the 1939 County Championship. He made three further first-class appearances for the county in that season, the last of which came against
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, with the onset of
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prematurely ending his first-class career. In his four first-class appearances for Lancashire, he took 10 wickets at an
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of 39.10, with best figures of 4/48. With the bat, he batted just twice, ending each innings
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on 0. Following the war, he made eight
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appearances for
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in 1948. He played for
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in the Lancashire League from 1933 to 1957. He died at
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, Lancashire, on 1 June 1984. Dudley Carew observed of his bowling style:
"Don't be afraid to give her air" is sound advice to a slow bowler, and indeed a bowler who is so afraid of being hit that he increases his pace and bowls defensively short of a length is not likely to be of much service to his side, but this Briggs went to the other extreme. He must have been the slowest bowler who ever appeared in first-class cricket, and he tossed the ball so high that the batsman had time to change his mind two or three times before he decided on his stroke.Dudley Carew, ''To the Wicket'', Chapman & Hall, London, 1946, p. 140.


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