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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = JG Greig<br />
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| fullname = John Glennie Greig<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1871|10|24}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mhow]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1958|05|24|1871|10|24}}<br />
| death_place = [[Milford-on-Sea]], [[Hampshire]], England<br />
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| batting = Right-handed <br />
| bowling = Right-arm slow<br />
| role = <br />
| family = <br />
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]<br />
| year1 = {{nowrap|1893/94–1920/21}}<br />
| club2 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]<br />
| year2 = 1901–1922<br />
| club3 = [[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]<br />
| year3 = 1902/03<br />
| type1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]<br />
| debutdate1 = 18 August<br />
| debutyear1 = 1894<br />
| debutfor1 = Europeans<br />
| debutagainst1 = [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]]<br />
| lastdate1 = 27 May<br />
| lastyear1 = 1922<br />
| lastfor1 = Hampshire<br />
| lastagainst1 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 125<br />
| runs1 = 7,348<br />
| bat avg1 = 36.37<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 15/32<br />
| top score1 = 249[[not out|*]]<br />
| deliveries1 = 6,550<br />
| wickets1 = 138<br />
| bowl avg1 = 23.46<br />
| fivefor1 = 8<br />
| tenfor1 = 2<br />
| best bowling1 = 7/35<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 102/–<br />
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/13465.html CricInfo<br />
| date = 11 September<br />
| year = 2020<br />
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'''Canon (Colonel) John Glennie Greig''' (24 October 1871 – 24 May 1958) was an English [[cricket]]er who played most of his cricket in India.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6628/6628.html John Greig], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-09-11. {{subscription}}</ref><br />
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Born in [[Mhow]] near [[Indore]] in 1871, he lived in India until 1921. In his time, he was the finest batsman to play for the Europeans in the annual [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency]] (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 promoted [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] 19 November 1901,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27414|page=1668|date=7 March 1902}}</ref> and later became [[Aide-de-camp]] to the [[Governor of Bombay]].<br />
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Greig made his [[first-class cricket]] debut for the Europeans against the Parses in the Bombay Presidency match of 1893/4. In the next year, he carried his bat for 79 runs 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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At [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]], 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 249 not out against [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] at [[Liverpool]] in 1901. He began the 1905 season with a century in each innings against [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]] 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 runs at 50.25, he finished fifth in the batting averages.<br />
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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.<br />
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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]]. Cricket historian [[Vasant Raiji]] considers his contributions to Indian cricket as of a same class as that of [[Ranji]] to English cricket.<br />
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== References ==<br />
*Vasant Raiji, ''India's Hambledon Men''<br />
*Mihir Bose, ''A History of Indian Cricket'', 1990 edition<br />
*''Wisden'' Obituary<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*{{cricinfo|id=13465}}<br />
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