Geoffrey Alan Greenidge (born 26 May 1948) is a former West Indian

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er who played in five

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from 1972 to 1973. His international career ended abruptly when he took part in a tour of

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, which was then under white minority rule. On his first-class debut in 1966–67, he scored 205 runs and took seven wickets in the first innings of the match. Greenidge was the last white player to play for West Indies, until

Joshua Da Silva Joshua Da Silva (born 19 June 1998) is a Trinidadian cricketer. He made his domestic debut in 2018 for Trinidad and Tobago, and his international debut for the West Indies cricket team in December 2020. Personal life Da Silva is of Portuguese ...

made his debut in 2020. For a time, it was believed that

Brendan Nash Brendan Paul Nash (born 14 December 1977) is a Jamaican Australian former professional cricketer who played Test and One Day International cricket for West Indies. He played first-class cricket for Jamaica, Queensland and Kent. Early lif ...

had taken this distinction in 2008, but Nash was later revealed to be of mixed race.

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* West Indies Test cricketers Barbados cricketers Sussex cricketers Barbadian cricketers 1948 births Living people D. H. Robins' XI cricketers {{Barbados-cricket-bio-stub