Full name | Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge |
Batting | Right-hand batsman |
Bowling | Right-arm off-break, right-arm medium pace |
Test debut | India vs West Indies at Bangalore, 1st Test, 1974/75 |
Latest Test | West Indies vs Australia at St John's, The Frank Worrell Trophy, 5th Test, 1990/91 |
ODI debut | Pakistan vs West Indies at Birmingham, Prudential World Cup, 8th Match, 1975 |
Latest ODI | England vs West Indies at Manchester, Texaco Trophy, 2nd ODI, 1991 |
Biographical Interest | |
1st May 1951 | Born– Cuthbert Gordon Lavine at Black Bess, St Peter, Barbados |
1955 | Attended St.Peter Boys’ School, Barbados. |
1965 | Moved to the UK at 14 years of age to Reading, Berkshire. |
Changed name to Greenidge, after my mother married my stepfather. | |
Attended Alfred Sutton’s Secondary School, Reading, leaving at 16 years of age. | |
Worked for Suttons Seeds in Reading. | |
Studied Book keeping and Accountancy whilst honing my cricket skills on the staff at Hampshire. | |
21st August 1967 | I made my debut for Hampshire against Warwickshire in a second team game. |
1970 | The ‘New Gordon Greenidge’ appeared ready for action culminating in a first team selection. |
1972 | Hampshire cap |
22nd August 1970 | Barry Richards and I came together for the first time as Hampshire’s opening pair, the start of what has been hailed subsequently by others as the finest opening partnership in post war cricket. Ironically this too was against Warwickshire. We also made a long lasting slip fielding partnership too. |
1977 | Wisden Cricketer of the Year |
1978 | Walter Lawrence Trophy winner |
1986 | Hampshire Cricket Society Player of the Year |
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