Justin Pierre Greaves (born 26 February 1994) is a Barbadian cricketer who has played for both
Barbados
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and the
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in West Indian domestic cricket. He made his international debut for the
West Indies cricket team
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Sri Lanka
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, he had top-scored in a match from seventh in the batting order, making 90 runs off only 68 balls.
Greaves played for Sefton Park CC in the
Liverpool and District Cricket Competition
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in
England
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in 2013, scoring 109 and taking 4–32 on debut against Old Xaverians and finishing with 742 runs at 67.45 and 31 wickets at 15.00 in 18 league games as Sefton convincingly won the second division. He returned to England in 2014, assisting
Essex
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side Frinton-on-Sea to a second-placed finish in the Two Counties league to gain promotion to the
East Anglian Premier Cricket League
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ICC Americas
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Global T20 Canada
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tournament. He made his
Twenty20
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debut on 20 September 2019, for the
Barbados Tridents
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, in the
2019 Caribbean Premier League
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. The following month, he was named in the West Indies Emerging Team for the
2019–20 Regional Super50
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tournament.
In July 2020, he was named in the
Barbados Tridents
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squad for the
2020 Caribbean Premier League
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.
In November 2021, Greaves was named in the West Indies'
One Day International
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(ODI) squad for their series against Pakistan. In December 2021, he was named in the West Indies' ODI squad for their series against Ireland. He made his ODI debut on 8 January 2022, for the West Indies against
Ireland
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