"the most dreadful hangover". He did not recollect the innings saying "I middled every ball and yet hardly saw one delivery clearly...I can't remember a single shot but when I returned to the pavilion rather later than I had anticipated, I discovered I had made 273 not out". He hit 13 sixes and 31 fours in the innings. In 1984, Greenidge achieved the highest batting average of any player during the English season. In his 16 innings, he scored 1069 runs at an average of 82.23. Greenidge received the ‘Hampshire Cricket Society Player of the Year’ in 1986 and played his final season for Hampshire in 1987. Greenidge holds the record for the highest score for Hampshire in a 60 over game of 177 against Glamorgan and the highest score in a 40 over game for Hampshire of 172 against Surrey. International career Gordon Greenidge was eligible to play for England but he opted to play for the West Indies. Greenidge played as an opening batsman and he began his Test career in 1974 against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, scoring 93 and 107 on debut. Greenidge made his ODI debut against Pakistan in the 1975 Cricket World Cup. The 1975 Cricket World Cup was a quiet tournament for Greenidge. His only innings of note was 55 in the semi-final against New Zealand. It took four more years to score an ODI century when he made 106 not out against India at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham. His highest score of 133 was made against the same team shortly after the 1983 Cricket World Cup. All but two of his ODI centuries were match-winning ones. The 1975-76 West Indian tour of Australia was considered by Greenidge as "personal nightmare so painful that I have spent my life since trying to erase it from my memory". Greenidge scored 11 runs in four test innings and the West Indies lost the series 5–1. He resolved, after that tour, to become "such a consistently high scorer that I could not be ignored". He said that “I knew from that point I had to tighten my game”. In the 1976 West Indian tour of England, Greenidge scored over a 1000 runs for the West Indies. This included his 134 out of the West Indian total of 211 in the first innings and a further century in the second innings of the Old Trafford test,