13 Facts About Chris Greetham

Christopher Herbert Millington Greetham played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club from 1957 to 1966 as a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler.

Chris Greetham was considered a good cover fielder, with a strong and accurate throw.

Chris Greetham first played for Somerset in 1957 and became a regular player in 1959, when he hit 881 runs in the season and made his highest first-class score, an unbeaten 151 in the match against the Combined Services.

Chris Greetham was one of six players to pass 1,000 runs for the season, and his final aggregate of 1186 was his best for a single season, with the average of 28.23 runs per innings the highest of his career.

Against Leicestershire at Weston-super-Mare, on a wet pitch, he made 141 in three hours; eight Somerset wickets had fallen for 145 when Chris Greetham was joined by Harold Stephenson, the Somerset captain, and the pair put on 183 for the ninth wicket in 105 minutes.

Chris Greetham was one of several Somerset batsmen for whom the 1964 season saw a regression.

Chris Greetham's bowling offered no consolation, and his wickets fell to just 17 and the average rose to more than 40 runs per wicket.

Wisden commented in its reports on both matches about the speed of Chris Greetham's scoring and the power of his strokes, and later in the season noted "a remarkable innings" against Cambridge University in which Chris Greetham, arriving at the wicket with 45 minutes of the first day to play, reached 73 not out by close of play.

The 1966 season was, like 1963, a successful one for Somerset, but this time Chris Greetham played almost no part.

Chris Greetham "would have been made for one-day cricket", says one modern directory of Somerset cricketers.

Chris Greetham did retain his place in Somerset's one-day side longer than in the first-class team: his last first-team appearance was in the Gillette semi-final defeat by Warwickshire in August 1966.

Chris Greetham played three non-first-class matches for Marylebone Cricket Club and Free Foresters in 1970 and 1971 with some success.

Chris Greetham was secretary of a golf club in Devon.