J.G.Greig Europeans and Hampshire
Batting style	Right-hand bat (RHB)
Bowling type Types of bowlers in cricket In the sport of cricket there are two broad categories of bowlers: pace bowlers and spin bowlers. Pace bowlers rely mostly on the speed of the ball to dismiss batsmen, whereas spin bowlers rely on the rotation of the ball.-Pace bowlers:...	Right-arm slow
First-class record First-class cricket First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
Matches	125
Runs scored	7348
Batting average Batting average Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...	36.37
100s/50s	10/32
Top score	249*
Balls bowled	6532
Wickets	138
Bowling average Bowling average Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...	23.46
5 wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... s in innings Innings An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...	8
10 wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... s in match	2
Best Bowling	7-35
Catches/Stumpings	102/0
First class debut: 28 August 1893 Last first class game: 27 May 1922 Source: http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6628/6628.html

Canon (Colonel) John Glennie Greig (24 October 1871, Mhow, India

India

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 – 24 May 1958, Milford on Sea

Milford on Sea

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, Hampshire

Hampshire

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) was an Englishman who played most of his cricket

Cricket

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 in India.

Born in Mhow near Indore

Indore

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 in 1871, he lived in India till 1921. In his time, he was the finest batsman to play for the Europeans in the annual Bombay Presidency

Bombay Quadrangular

The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay, India from 1912 to 1936. At other times it was known variously as the Presidency Match, Bombay Triangular, and the Bombay Pentangular....

 (later Pentangular) tournaments. He possessed a slight physique but strong wrists and was a useful right arm slow bowler. In India, he was affectionately called "Jungly" Greig. He was ADC

Aide-de-camp

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 to the Governor of Bombay.

Greig made his first class debut for the Europeans against the Parsis in the Bombay Presidency match of 1893/4. In the next year, he carried his bat for 79* out of 190 against the same opponents. His 184 five years later was the highest ever individual score made in India and in 1898 in Poona, he took 13 for 58 against the Parsis.

Against the touring Oxford Authentics in 1902 he scored 204, the first double hundred made on Indian soil. In December 1915 in a match styled India v England, he hit 216 which resulted in a win of an innings and 263 runs for England. Greig served as a selector when the All India side was chosen for their first official tour to England in 1911.

At Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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, he was a player, secretary and the president. He first represented them in 1901 when he was on leave from the army. The highest of his ten Hampshire hundreds was a 249* against Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 at Liverpool

Liverpool

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 in 1901. He began the 1905 season with a century in each innings against Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 and 66 against the Australians. But he was injured midway through his innings of 187 in the return match against Worcestershire and played little cricket thereafter in the season. With 804 at 50.25, he finished fifth in the averages.

His last game for Hampshire was in 1921 when he became the secretary of the county cricket club. He served in that position till 1930 and became the president in 1945 and 1946.

Greig came to India as a captain in the army. By the time returned he had become a colonel. He later became a Roman Catholic and was ordained as a priest in 1935. In 1947, he was made an honorary canon of the diocese of Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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. Cricket historian Vasant Raiji

Vasant Raiji

Vasant Naisadrai Raiji, , is a former cricketer and cricket historian.Raiji opened the batting for Bombay and Baroda in Ranji Trophy, and was a reserve of the Hindu team in the 1941 Bombay Pentangular. At the end of his playing career, he turned to writing and is the author of several works on...

 considers his contributions to Indian cricket as of a same class as that of Ranji to English cricket.

External links

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