World Series Cricket World XI the World XI also offered competitive international class cricket to players from South Africa, who were then banned from international cricket, such as Barry Richards, Garth Le Roux and Mike Procter. World Series Cricket World XI The World Series Cricket Rest of the World XI was a cricket team representing the Rest of the World in World Series Cricket (WSC). Their first game was against the Australia XI in 1978. World Series Cricket ended in 1979 after the Australia XI tour to West Indies. The side was captained by former England captain Tony Greig, who was assigned to recruit his
J. G. Greig the diocese of Portsmouth. Cricket historian Vasant Raiji considers his contributions to Indian cricket as of a same class as that of Ranji to English cricket. J. G. Greig Canon (Colonel) John Glennie Greig (24 October 1871, Mhow, India – 24 May 1958, Milford on Sea, Hampshire) was an Englishman who played most of his cricket in India. Born in Mhow near Indore in 1871, he lived in India till 1921. In his time, he was the finest batsman to play for the Europeans in the annual Bombay Presidency (later Pentangular) tournaments. He possessed a slight physique but strong wrists