Colin Griffiths (cricketer)

Colin Griffiths
Personal information
Born(1930-12-09)9 December 1930
Upminster, Essex, England
Died14 September 2004(2004-09-14) (aged 73)
Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England
BattingRight-handed
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1951–1953Essex
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 27
Runs scored 615
Batting average 16.18
100s/50s 1/1
Top score 105
Balls bowled 18
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 4/–
Source: Cricinfo, 19 July 2013

Colin Griffiths (9 December 1930 – 14 September 2004) was an English cricketer. He played for Essex between 1951 and 1953.[1]

Griffiths was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, and played cricket briefly as an amateur batsman before going into his family's demolition business.[2][3] In 1952, going into the match with a first-class batting average of 12 and a highest score of 31,[3] he hit the fastest first-class hundred of the season, 105 in 90 minutes for Essex against Kent, when he batted at No. 9 and added 183 for the eighth wicket in 90 minutes with Trevor Bailey.[2] Essex won by an innings.[4] Against Middlesex a few days later he scored 89, again at No. 9, and 25 retired hurt, his second innings ending when he pulled a back muscle while hitting a six.[2]

Griffiths lost interest in cricket after leaving Essex. After some years in the family business, he pursued other interests and finished his working career as the head of a residential unit for disturbed adolescents.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Colin Griffiths". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Wisden 2005, p. 1641.
  3. ^ a b c Stephen Chalke, Runs in the Memory, Fairfield Books, Bath, 1998, pp. 25–37.
  4. ^ "Kent v Essex 1952". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 November 2021.


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