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Full name Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge
Born May 1, 1951, Black Bess, St Peter, Barbados
Current age 57 years 159 days
Major teams Scotland,West Indies,Barbados,Hampshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Education Sutton Secondary School, Reading, England
Relations Son - CG Greenidge
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
108
185
16
7558
226
44.72
19
34
67
96
0
ODIs
128
127
13
5134
133*
45.03
7908
64.92
11
31
45
0
First-class
523
889
75
37354
273*
45.88
92
183
516
0
List A
440
436
33
16349
186*
40.56
33
94
172
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
108
2
26
4
0
-
-
-
0.92
-
0
0
0
ODIs
128
2
60
45
1
1/21
1/21
45.00
4.50
60.0
0
0
0
First-class
523
955
479
18
5/49
26.61
3.00
53.0
1
0
List A
440
286
211
2
1/21
1/21
105.50
4.42
143.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v West Indies at Bangalore, Nov 22-27, 1974 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v Australia at St John's, Apr 27-May 1, 1991 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Pakistan v West Indies at Birmingham, Jun 11, 1975 scorecard
Last ODI
England v West Indies at Manchester, May 25, 1991 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1970 - 1992
List A span
1970 - 1992
Profile
Brooding and massively destructive, the power of Gordon Greenidge's strokeplay on any given day appeared to bear a direct relationship to the degree that he limped when running between the wickets. In such a mood he didn't run much anyway and his brutal unbeaten 214 at Lord's in 1984, to set up a nine-wicket win after England had had the temerity to declare, is considered one of the great innings. He was a superb technician, who learned solid defensive techniques on the pudding pitches of his childhood in England and then allied them to an uninhibited Caribbean heritage. Attacking was in his genes. Never in the game has there been a more withering and dismissive square-cut, nor a more willing and able hooker and puller, but he drove mightily too on both sides of the wicket. With Desmond Haynes he formed what was by a distance the most enduring and prolific opening partnership of them all, with 16 century stands, four of them in excess of 200. And they were just the hors d'oeuvres.
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Notes
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1977
Walter Lawrence Trophy 1978
