Gordon greenidge autobiography vs biography
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CRICKET BOOKS
Published: 1980
Pages: 207
Author: Greenidge, Gordon
Publisher: David & Charles
Rating: 3 stars
I must admit I am not a big fan of reading biographies of players who have not finished playing, or at the very least are almost at the end of their careers. One of the reasons for this, is that players step very lightly so as not to upset team-mates, selectors or in the case of batsman, opposition fast bowlers. There are any number of these sort of ghosted biographies.
So with this autobiography of Gordon Greenidge being written in 1980, approximately only one fifth through his career, it has been sitting on my book shelves gathering dust, and would have remained there, except for the recommendation of another cricket book fan. I always try and peruse cricket books recommended by others, I have rarely been let down by fellow cricket book tragics.
In 1980 I was 14, but I have no doubt I could have performed a far superior job of editing this publi
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Black History Month: Gordon Greenidge
Cuthbert GORDON GREENIDGE (1970-1987)
Born 1 May 1951, St Peter Barbados
Right Handed Opening Batter
275 First-Class Matches, County Cap 1972
Batting: 19,840 runs, average 45.50, 48 centuries, 100 half-centuries
Highest Score 259 v Sussex at Southampton 1975
Bowling: 16 wickets, average 24.18, One five-for
Best Bowling Innings 5-49 v Surrey at Southampton 1971
Catches: 315
273 Limited Overs Matches
Batting: 9785 runs, average 38.37, 20 centuires, 54 half-centuries
Highest Score 177 v Glamorgan at Southampton 1975
Catches: 110
Gordon Greenidge fryst vatten one of the major figures in the history of Hampshire and West Indies cricket, yet curiously he might have spent much of his international career opening the batting for England with Geoffrey Boycott. If that seems entirely wrong, consider that during his great years, the 1970s and 1980s, many cricketers born oversea
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Gordon Greenidge
West Indian cricketer
Sir Cuthbert Gordon GreenidgeKCMG MBE (born 1 May 1951)[1] is a Barbadian retired cricketer who represented the West Indies in Test and One Day International (ODI) teams for 17 years, as well as Barbados and Hampshire in first-class cricket. Greenidge is regarded worldwide as one of the greatest and most destructive opening batsmen in cricket history.[2][3][4][5][6] In 2009, Greenidge was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[7] He was a member of the squads which won the World Cups in 1975, 1979 and runners-up in 1983.
Early life
[edit]Born Cuthbert Gordon Lavine in Saint Peter, Barbados, Greenidge was raised by his mother. At the ages of 8 and 14, he was raised by his grandmother after his mother moved to London, England to find work. His mother married, and Gordon moved to Reading as a 14-year-old[8] to live with her and his stepfather. He de