Gordon Greenidge Awarded Knighthood 

Gordon Greenidge, one of Hampshire’s greatest cricketers, is to be knighted as revealed in the recently announced New Year Honours list.

Greenidge - born in St Peter, Barbados – made his first-class debut in 1970, the first of his 18 seasons with Hampshire, across which he amassed 19,840 first-class runs at an average of more than 45.

The back-to-back ICC World Cup winner with the West Indies won four trophies in his time at Hampshire, including the County Championship in 1973, with his five centuries and 1,656 runs integral to Hampshire’s success.

He remains the last Hampshire batsman to score 2,000 first-class runs in a season and when he left the Club he held Hampshire’s record scores in all three limited-overs competitions.

Gordon’s appointment as Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG) will see him join an impressive list of Hampshire knights.

Both Sir Francis Lacey and Sir Anderson Roberts have previously received the peerage for services to cricket – Lacey, a former Hampshire captain who still holds the record for Hampshire’s highest score in any form of cricket (323*), the first to ever receive the honour – while seventeen other Hampshire players have also been knighted.

Hampshire’s Knights

Dr Sir Henry William Russell BENCRAFT

Sir Evelyn Ridley BRADFORD

General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas BROOKS

Sir Alfred Englefield EVANS

Sir Edward Boscawen FREDERICK

Sir Cuthbert Gordon GREENIDGE

Sir Granville George GREENWOOD

Sir Frederick Thomas Arthur HERVEY-BATHURST

Lt Gen Sir Basil Ferguson Burnett HITCHCOCK

Admiral Sir Alan Geoffrey HOTHAM

Sir Walter Coote HEDLEY

Sir Francis Eden LACEY

Admiral Sir George Hamilton D’Oyly LYON

Sir Henry Paulet St John MILDMAY

Sir Henry John MORDAUNT

Sir Henry Meredyth PLOWDEN

Sir Anderson Montgomery Everton ROBERTS

Major-General Sir Herbert STEWART

Sir William Henry Marsham STYLE

Sir Matthew WOOD