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Place of Birth: Saint Lucy, Barbados
About Charlie Griffith
- Sir Charles Christopher Griffith (born 14 December 1938) is a West Indian former cricketer who played in 28 Tests from 1960 to 1969.
- He formed a fast bowling partnership with Wes Hall during the 1960s.
- In the 1961/62 season, a delivery from Griffith cracked Indian batsman Nari Contractor's skull, prematurely ending Contractor's international career. When Griffith started playing club cricket in Barbados at a young age, it was as a right-arm spinner.
- During one game he decided to bowl right arm fast and finished with figures of 7 for 1.
- He remained a fast bowler and soon after was chosen to represent Barbados.
- His first-class debut was made against the Marylebone Cricket Club who were touring the Caribbean in 1959/60 and in the space of two overs he dismissed England internationals Colin Cowdrey, Mike Smith and Peter May. In the match between Barbados and the touring Indians in 1961/62, Nari Contractor was hit on the back of the head by a Griffith bouncer.
- After being helped from the field, Contractor started to bleed profusely, having suffered a fractured skull.
- Two emergency operations were required to remove blood clots on his brain.
- Although he recovered from his injury, he never played Test cricket again.
- Later in the match Griffith was no-balled by umpire Cortez Jordan for throwing, the first of two times that he was called during his career.
- The other occasion was a tour match against Lancashire in 1966, when Griffith was called by Arthur Fagg.Griffith had a successful tour of England in 1963, finishing the summer with 119 wickets at 12.3, 32 of them coming in the Test series.
- In the first innings of the Headingley Test he took 6 for 36 and finished the match with 9 wickets.
- He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1964. Griffith was made a Knight of St Andrew by the Barbados government in 2017, having previously been given the Silver Crown Of Merit in 1992.
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