Gordon greenidge autobiography in five short

Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE is a former member of the West Indies cricket team and with brooding and massively destructive strokeplay was one of the premier opening batsmen of the West Indies.

Gordon greenidge autobiography in five short chapters

Gordon Greenidge was as much an integral part of the Caribbean dominance from the mids into the s as the celebrated pool of supreme fast bowlers.  On the pitch, Greenidge exuded every bit of confidence and panache worthy of a player of his ability.

But off it, he seldom appealed to the West Indian cricket fan in the same way as a Viv Richards.

Born in Barbados on May 1, , Greenidge spent his first fourteen years of his life on an island where cricket is followed with a zeal unsurpassed anywhere else.

There can be no doubt that these formative years in such an atmosphere provided the groundwork for his love and approach to the game.

His early schooldays at Black Bess School and St Peter's Boys' were spent while fellow Barbadians such as Sobers, Hall, Hunte, Nurse and Griffi