Prominent Players
Johnny Briggs played cricket for Northern in 1878 and 1879. He debuted for Lancashire in 1879 aged just 16, and went on to become the only player in the county's history to score over 10,000 runs and take over 1,000 wickets (1,696 in all). Johnny played 33 tests matches for England, taking 118 wickets and scoring 815 runs. His test career was ended in 1899 by illness during the Headingley test match against Australia, and he met with a premature and unfortunate death just 3 years later.
Dr John Winter is probably the club's finest amateur player, first playing in the 1937 season. In 1955 he scored 1,423 runs, which remained a record until 2007 for runs in a season by any player in Liverpool Competition cricket, and hit 8 centuries in the process. He scored a total of 30 first team centuries for the club, despite a career interrupted by the war, the first in 1938 and the last in 1962.
New Zealander James Marshall played for Northern during the 2004 season, at the end of which he returned to his homeland to break into the Blackcaps' test match team in their series against Australia. James returned to Northern in 2005, to help the club to their Premier League championship success of that year.
Phil Jaques played for Northern in 1999, via a cricketing scholarship award from New South Wales, and went on to play test match cricket for Australia from 2005.
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