In those 13 matches no other Australian player exceeded 800 runs, and only Graham McKenzie, with 49, took more wickets.
The Adelaide Oval was notoriously flat, but McKenzie was an expert on getting batsmen out on dull wickets and used the humid atmosphere and fresh pitch to bowl Bob Barber for a duck and have John Edrich caught by the ever-reliable Simpson at slip.
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McKenzie attended John Curtin High School, where he performed well with both bat and ball in the school's first XI.
After two years in the Lancashire League, the Leicestershire captain, Ray Illingworth called Higgs out of first-class cricket retirement because of Graham McKenzie's expected unavailability with the 1972 Australians.
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