Career
He was a medium pace seam bowler, who took over 400 first class wickets spanning a twelve year period between 1974 and 1986. Griffiths later played for Lincolnshire and continued playing league cricket into his fifties. He is however best remembered not for his bowling but for his inept batting, managing a career average of just over 3 runs per innings, which is the second-lowest by any regular first-class cricketer ahead of Francis McHugh of Yorkshire and Gloucestershire.
Griffiths was out 51 times in his career without scoring and early in his career played ten consecutive innings without scoring a run, breaking the long-time record of Tom Goddard, Seymour Clark and Brian Boshier.
Griffiths’ batting was considered so inferior that his local club nicknamed him “the world’s worst batsman” and “the wally of the willow”. Somehow, both Griffiths and Lamb stood firm and held on, managing to accumulate the runs required, with Griffiths getting off the mark after twenty-nine balls and hitting the winning run and being carried off shoulder high by the partisan crowd.
Three years later, Griffiths made eleven runs against Kent to level the scores and was run out attempting a bye off the last ball of the day, resulting in the first tie ever at Wantage Road.