Gordon Greenidge

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Gordon Greenidge
West Indies
Personal information
Batting style	Right hand bat
Bowling style	Right arm leg break
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	108	128
Runs scored	7558	5134
Batting average	44.72	45.03
100s/50s	19/34	11/31
Top score	226	133*
Overs	4.2	10
Wickets	0	1
Bowling average	n/a	45.00
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a
Best bowling	n/a	1/21
Catches/stumpings	96/0	45/0
As of 7 November 2005 Source: [1]

Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge is a former member of the West Indies cricket team, born May 1, 1951 in Black Bess, St. Peter, Barbados.

Gordon Greenidge was a feared opening batsman for the West Indies. He began his Test career against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in 1974 and continued playing internationally until 1991. He was half of the West Indies most prolific opening partnership with Desmond Haynes. Greenidge went on to play 108 Test matches scoring 7,558 runs with 19 centuries. He also played 128 One Day Internationals, including the 1975 and 1983 World Cup Finals, scoring 5,134 runs and 11 centuries.

Greenidge is perhaps best known in England for his amazing double-double century performances against the home side in the 1984 summer Test series (also known as the "Blackwash" series WI winning 5-0). He scored 214 runs during the second Test at Lords in June of 1984, then followed up with 223 runs during the fourth Test at Old Trafford during the last five days of July, cementing his place in Test cricket history. The first of those innings was on the last day as West Indies successfully chased 342 for victory; it remains the highest run chase ever at Lords.

He also played many seasons for Hampshire in the English County Championship, and for many years opened with Barry Richards to form the most feared county opening pair. He began his first class cricket career there before he played for Barbados and could have qualified for England. Late on in his career he appeared for Scotland. In his career he scored 37,000 runs and 92 centuries.

Greenidge is one of the best batsman to represent West Indies in international Tests and is currently on the West Indies selection committee for Test matches, along with fellow 1980s WI cricketing hero Viv Richards. His son Carl is also a professional cricketer with Gloucestershire.

Greenidge was also successful in his coaching career. He became the coach of Bangladesh in 1997. Under his guidance Bangladesh became the champions of ICC Trophy in 1997 along with the chance to play at their first world cup finals in 1999. Soon afterwards Greenidge was given the honorary citizenship of the country. He also coached them during the 1999 Cricket World Cup and the team eventually promoted to a Test playing nation after their stunning performance during the World Cup.

Preceded by Viv Richards

West Indies Test cricket captains 1987/8

Succeeded by Desmond Haynes

v • d • e West Indies squad - 1975 Cricket World Cup (1st title) 1 Lloyd (c) • 2 Boyce • 3 Fredericks • 4 Gibbs • 5 Greenidge • 6 Holder • 7 Julien • 8 Kallicharran • 9 Kanhai • 10 Murray (wk) • 11 Richards • 12 Roberts

v • d • e West Indies squad - 1979 Cricket World Cup (2nd title) 1 Lloyd (c) • 2 Croft • 3 Garner • 4 Greenidge • 5 Haynes • 6 Holding • 7 Kallicharran • 8 King • 9 Murray (wk) • 10 Richards • 11 Roberts

v • d • e West Indies squad - 1983 Cricket World Cup (runners-up) 1 Lloyd (c) • 2 Bacchus • 3 Daniel • 4 Davis • 5 Dujon (wk) • 6 Garner • 7 Gomes • 8 Greenidge • 9 Haynes • 10 Holding • 11 Logie • 12 Marshall • 13 Richards • 14 Roberts

v • d • e Bangladesh squad - 1999 Cricket World Cup 1 Aminul Islam • 2 Shahriar Hossain • 3 Khaled Mashud (w) • 4 Faruk Ahmed • 5 Mehrab Hossain • 6 Akram Khan • 7 Shafiuddin Ahmed • 8 Khaled Mahmud • 9 Naimur Rahman • 10 Hasibul Hossain • 11 Mohammad Rafique • 12 Enamul Haque • 13 Manjural Islam • 14 Niamur Rashid • 15 Minhajul Abedin • Coach: Greenidge