[2] Haig served as a captain with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan after World War II.
[5] After scoring 151 for his club Grange in the opening match of Dunedin cricket in 1949-50 he was selected to play for Otago.
[6] In his second first-class match, against Auckland in 1949–50, batting at number six, he scored 67 and added 266 in 222 minutes for the fifth wicket with Bert Sutcliffe, who made 355.
[14] He played in a Test trial for South Island after the Shield season and before the series against England, but was unsuccessful.
When Sutcliffe's sports shop in Dunedin failed in the early 1960s, he accepted the offer of a job with Haig's ice-cream company in Hamilton.