10 best exponents of the cut shot in cricket history

1 Gordon Greenidge

It is often said that former West Indian batting great Gordon Greenidge often hit the ball harder than even Viv Richards, and one of the best exhibitions of that was perhaps in his cut shots.

Greenidge, unlike many other West Indian players of his era, had a copybook technique and his execution of the cut shot was nearly perfect. His head used to be still at all times and as soon as he picked up the length he would go on the backfoot before bringing down the bat with a heavy chop on the top of the ball’s bounce.

Most of those shots scurried away to the boundary. Although there have been plenty of better batsmen than Greenidge in the history of the game, no one quite had the same level of mastery over the cut shot.