Geoffrey Alan Greenidge (born 26 May 1948) is a former West Indian
cricket
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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
Rhodesia
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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.
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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 life
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had taken this distinction in 2008, but Nash was later revealed to be of mixed race.
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West Indies Test cricketers
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Sussex cricketers
Barbadian cricketers
1948 births
Living people
D. H. Robins' XI cricketers
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