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Full name Anthony William Greig
Born October 6, 1946, Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa
Current age 62 years 8 days
Major teams England,Border,Eastern Province,Sussex
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak
Other Commentator
Height
6 ft 6 in
Relations Brother - IA Greig,Nephew - WG Hodson
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
58
93
4
3599
148
40.43
8
20
437
19
87
0
ODIs
22
19
3
269
48
16.81
378
71.16
0
0
19
3
7
0
First-class
350
579
45
16660
226
31.19
26
96
345
0
List A
190
177
19
3899
129
24.67
3
21
88
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
58
93
9802
4541
141
8/86
13/156
32.20
2.77
69.5
6
6
2
ODIs
22
19
916
619
19
4/45
4/45
32.57
4.05
48.2
1
0
0
First-class
350
52513
24702
856
8/25
28.85
2.82
61.3
33
8
List A
190
8435
5650
244
6/28
6/28
23.15
4.01
34.5
12
3
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v Australia at Manchester, Jun 8-13, 1972 scorecard
Last Test
England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 25-30, 1977 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Australia at Manchester, Aug 24, 1972 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Australia at The Oval, Jun 6, 1977 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1965/66 - 1978
List A span
1967 - 1978
Profile
Until the match-fixing scandal of the recent past, no cricketer has lost reputation so fast or so conclusively as Tony Greig, who secretly helped Kerry Packer set up World Series Cricket in 1977. Yet although it was inevitable that his participation in WSC should lead to Greig upping sticks from Sussex to Australia later that year, it was much regretted both on a personal and national level. Greig, South-African born but England captain, was not only charming, articulate and handsome, but a charismatic figure and a notably adaptable allrounder. His two most celebrated innings, an attacking 110 on a Brisbane flyer against Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson in 1974-75, and a 430-minute 103 against Bedi, Chandresekhar and Prasanna on a broken pitch at Calcutta two years later, had almost nothing in common but their author. As a bowler he took most of his 141 Test wickets with fast-medium outswing, helped by extra bounce from his 6ft 7ins frame. In an effort to exploit the presence of five dangerous left-handers in the 1973-74 West Indies team, however, Greig had enough confidence in himself to experiment with offspin. He got the feel of it at Bridgetown, where he took 6 for 164 in a total of 596 for 8 (Lawrence Rowe 302). Even more improbably, at Port-of-Spain a fortnight later, while Derek Underwood and Pat Pocock were sharing 4 for 222, Greig grabbed 8 for 86 and 5 for 70 to bowl England to a 26-run victory to square the series. At second slip, where he took most of his 87 Test catches, there was nothing to choose between Greig and Botham, his successor as England's allrounder.
John Thicknesse
