Gregory Arthur Lamb (born 4 March 1981) is a

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

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. He is a right-handed batsman who can bowl both off spin and right arm medium pace. He was Zimbabwe's Young Player of the Year and represented his country at Under-12, Under-15 and Under-19 levels. He played in the

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final for

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...

against

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in 2005 and was a valuable member of the squad which finished runners-up in the Frizzell County Championship in 2005. Lamb was released by Hampshire at the end of the 2008 season having not played for the first team under caretaker coach

Giles White Giles William White (born March 23, 1972), is a former English cricketer and now the Director of Cricket of Hampshire County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-handed leg-break bowler, as well as being an occasional ...

. He took just eight Championship wickets at 71.37 in the

2008 County Championship The 2008 County Championship season, known as the LV County Championship for sponsorship reasons, was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team plays all the others in their division both home and away. The top two ...

season. In 2009 Lamb joined

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershir ...

, making his debut in the

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

against Wales Minor Counties. Lamb has since returned to Zimbabwe to play for the

Mashonaland Eagles The Mashonaland Eagles is one of five cricket Zimbabwean cricket franchises. They are based in the Harare Metropolitan and Mashonaland Central area and play both first-class and limited overs cricket. They play their home matches at Harare Sp ...

. Lamb has had a prolific season with the Eagles which has led to his inclusion in Zimbabwe's squad for their tour to the West Indies.

International career

Lamb made his debut for Zimbabwe in

Twenty20 International A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...

s against the

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, scoring 11 runs and taking 2/14 from 4 overs, including the wicket of

Shivnarine Chanderpaul Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul (born 16 August 1974) is a Guyanese cricket coach and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. Considered one of the greatest batsmen of his era, Chanderpaul is the first Indo-Caribbean to play 100 Tests for ...

leg before as Zimbabwe won by 26 runs. Lamb made his

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debut for Zimbabwe against the West Indies on 4 March 2010, where in the West Indies innings he took the wicket of

LBW as Zimbabwe went on to win the match by 2 runs.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lamb, Greg 1981 births Living people Cricketers from Harare Zimbabwean cricketers CFX Academy cricketers Mashonaland cricketers Hampshire cricketers Wiltshire cricketers Mashonaland Eagles cricketers Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers Zimbabwe Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers at the 2011 Cricket World Cup Zimbabwe Test cricketers Alumni of Lomagundi College White Zimbabwean sportspeople