An Amazing personality would be an apt comment on him.
Born in South Africa, played & captained England & now settled in Australia. He was a good cricketer in his heydays, but could not live up to the potential that he had in him.
He captained England when they were going through a difficult phase.He had this uncanny habit of shooting through the hip. In the series against West Indies in 1976, before the West Indies arrived in England, he had said that West Indies will be brought to its knees. What happened was just the opposite.England were brought down to their knees & they were defeated 4-0 in a five test series, after which Tony Greg had to concede that he had said a bit too much.
But he was soon very friendly with the West Indian players.
He was a captain with a lot of flair much unlike Mike Brearley who is supposed to be the most successful England captain till date.Tony Grieg although not a very successful captain but was very popular among the public & he players.
Now in the role of a commentator for the past 20 years, he is truly among the most admired commentators.Very popular all over the world, he continues to enthrall all the cricket watching public all over the world.