Touted as Gloucester’s finest cricket product and most decorated player, Eric Higgins began his cricket career as a Gloucester junior - Gloucester Sports Committee

In 1974 he was selected to attend a NSW country coaching clinic in Sydney, where he scored an unbeaten 101 runs against a combined Green Shield team at the SCG.

Eric played a leading role in the Gloucester team’s win against Manning, Hastings and Macleay in the Mid North Coast inter-district First XI competition in 1975/86.

Eric was a Northern NSW Emu representative where he is listed as the all-time highest century maker, scoring a record four centuries.

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