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Tony Greig
South African born English cricketer (1946–2012)
For the wrestler, see Tony Greig (wrestler).
| Full name | Anthony William Greig |
|---|---|
| Born | (1946-10-06)6 October 1946 Queenstown, Cape Province, Union of South Africa |
| Died | 29 December 2012(2012-12-29) (aged 66) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm medium Right-arm off break |
| Role | All-rounder |
| Relations | Ian Greig (brother) Norman Curry (brother-in-law) |
| National side | |
| Test debut (cap 452) | 8 June 1972 v Australia |
| Last Test | 30 August 1977 v Australia |
| ODI debut (cap 15) | 24 August 1972 v Australia |
| Last ODI | 6 June 1977 v Australia |
| Years | Team |
| 1965/66–1969/70 | Border |
| 1966–1978 | Sussex |
| 1970/71–1971/72 | Eastern Province |
Source: CricInfo, 28 October 2009 | |
Anthony William Greig (6 October 1946 – 29 December 2012) was a South African-born cricketer and commentator. Greig qualified to play for the E
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CRICKET BOOKS
Published: 2014
Pages: 438
Author: Greig, Joyce and Greig, Mark
Publisher: Macmillan
Rating: 3.5 stars
Tony Greig died at the end of 2012. A year before that David Tossell had published a very fine biography of the former England captain. Soon after Greig’s death his former county, Sussex, produced a delightful tribute. I was therefore a little surprised that a few months after Greig’s passing another book appeared, clearly a biography but, unusually, written by family members and, a little confusingly, using the same photograph on the cover as Tossell’s book.
The fact that Tony Greig: Love, War and Cricket was initially published in Australia I could live with. It has however always irritated me that it never found a UK publisher, and that it took me seven years to finally track down a copy at a reasonable price. Since the days of WG Grace I cannot think of any other books about an England captain that have not been published in the UK. Perhaps for some the wounds that Greig’s 1977 defection to World Series Cricket caused really hav
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Tony Greig
At 6 feet 6 inches, Tony Greig stood head-and-shoulders above team-mates on the field, and had the confidence and charisma to go with it, making up for shortcomings of technique with the bat and pace with the ball by sheer personality and an irrepressible love of the contest. The controversial conclusion of his career, as one of the first and firmest disciples of Kerry Packer, have tended to obscure his all-round accomplishments: in the mid-1970s, there was no more complete cricketer, and he bequeathed to his successor as England's captain, Mike Brearley, a thoroughly professional and close-knit side.
Born in Queenstown, South Africa, son of a harsh and demanding Scottish father, he trialled for Sussex in 1965 as a teenager and prospered, then set himself the goal of representing England following the route already described, in different circumstances, by the Cape Coloured Basil D'Oliveira. Considered good enough to represent Rest of the World when that ensemble toured Australia in 1971-2, he met his deadline by earning a Test cap for the subsequent home Ashes seri
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