Gordon Greenidge West Indies (WI)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	leg break googly (LBG)
	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*
BallsOvers bowled	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
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Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge was a West Indian cricketer, born May 1, 1951 in Black Bess, St. Peter, Barbados. The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

Gordon Greenidge was a feared batsman for the West Indies. He began his Test career 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. Desmond Haynes (born February 15, 1956 in Barbados) is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... Cricket World Cup 2007 logo The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations (currently 10 nations), plus qualifiers. ...

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.

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. Hampshire County Cricket Club (HCCC) is a first-class cricket club based in the south of England. ... The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. ... Barry Richards (born July 21 1945) was one of South Africas finest ever cricketers and arguably the greatest opening batsman produced by his country. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales. ...

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 1980's WI cricketing hero Viv Richards. Gordon's son Carl is also a cricketer with Gloucestershire. Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (born St Johns, Antigua on 7 March 1952), better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv is a former West Indian cricketer. ... Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is an English domestic first-class cricket club based at County Cricket Ground, Bristol. ...

Gordon Greenidge's career performance graph.