John Griffiths
Cricket Umpire
1931 – 1982
Who was John Griffiths?
John Vesey Claude Griffiths, born at Lee, London on 19 January 1931 and died at Wedmore, Somerset on 18 February 1982, played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire from 1952 to 1957.
A lower-order left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm spin bowler, Griffiths played in 34 matches without ever establishing himself as a regular in the Gloucestershire first team. His most productive season was 1953, when he played in 13 matches and made his highest score, 32 against Combined Services. But in those 13 matches he took only 16 wickets.
Competing for a place in a Gloucestershire side that already boasted a Test slow left-armer in Sam Cook and future Test offbreak bowlers in John Mortimore and David Allen, plus the irrepressible Bryan Wells, Griffiths' opportunities got fewer rather than greater across the mid 1950s. His best bowling figures were four-wicket hauls in matches against university sides in 1955 and 1956, with four for 74 the best.
Griffiths played Minor Counties cricket for Gloucestershire as early as 1948 and played on through the 1958 season, though his last first-class appearance was in 1957.
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