Arthur Greenfield

{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Arthur Greenfield

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Arthur Cyril Greenfield

| birth_date = 5 March 1887

| birth_place = Wandsworth, Surrey, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|10|9|1887|3|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

| nickname =

| family =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1921/22–1926/27

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 3

| runs1 = 57

| bat avg1 = 14.25

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 31

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 28 December

| year = 2023

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/arthur-greenfield-28969 Cricinfo

}}

Arthur Cyril Greenfield (5 March 1887 – 9 October 1966) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Indian Army.

The son of J. H. Greenfield, he was born at Wandsworth in March 1887. He was educated at Lancing College.{{cite book |title=The Lancing Register|date=1900|publisher=Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.|location=London|page=281|url=https://archive.org/details/registerofsnicho00lancuoft|language=en}} After leaving Lancing, he went to British India at work for David Sassoon & Co. in Karachi. During the First World War, he was commissioned into the British Indian Army Reserve of Officers as a second lieutenant in January 1915,{{London Gazette|issue=29098|date=12 March 1915|page=2518}} with promotion to lieutenant following in January 1916.{{London Gazette|issue=30199|date=24 July 1917|page=7491}} Toward the end of the war, he was made a temporary captain in May 1918{{London Gazette|issue=31131|date=17 January 1919|page=908}} and a temporary major in September of the same year, the latter while second-in-commanding of a unit in the 4th Gwalior Imperial Service Infantry.{{London Gazette|issue=31315|date=29 April 1919|page=5352}}{{London Gazette|issue=31685|date=12 December 1919|page=15488}} Following the war, he was promoted to the full rank of captain in January 1919.{{London Gazette|issue=31411|date=20 June 1919|page=7836}}

Whilst in India, Greenfield made three appearances in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team. Two of these came in the 1921–22 and 1922–23 Bombay Quadrangular Tournament against the Hindus and the Parsees, with his third match coming against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club at Karachi Gymkhana.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13566/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Greenfield|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=28 December 2023|url-access=subscription}} In these, he scored 57 runs at an average of 14.15, with a highest score of 31.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13566/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Arthur Greenfield|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=28 December 2023|url-access=subscription}} He later retired to England, where he died in October 1966 at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells following a short illness; he was survived by his widow and two sons.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000483/19661014/212/0010|title=Obituary|work=Kent and Sussex Courier|location=Tunbridge Wells|page=10|date=14 August 1966|access-date=28 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}