Greg Lamb

Move to England Having impressed for Hampshire in the Second XI Championship in 2003, Lamb was offered a contract with the county ahead of the 2004 season. Since 1999, he had spent five winters in England; as a result, by the start of the 2004 season, he had completed his five-year residential qualification to play county cricket. He made his senior Hampshire debut in a one-day match against Lancashire at Southampton in the 2004 totesport League, with Lamb making five further appearances in the competition; making one fifty against Northamptonshire. He made his Twenty20 (T20) debut during the 2004 season, making six appearances in the Twenty20 Cup. He made his County Championship debut in Hampshire's final Championship match of the season against Derbyshire, He played regularly for the county in the 2005 season, making nine appearances in the County Championship, He scored 250 runs at an average of 16.66 in the Championship, making two half-centuries. In one-day cricket, he made 16 appearances, In the Twenty20 Cup, he scored 151 runs at an average of 25.16, making one half century (67 runs from 54 balls) against Essex.

Lamb struggled to hold down a place in the 2006 County Championship, playing twice, taking career-best one-day figures of 4 for 38 against Yorkshire, a match in which he also scored 64 runs. Lamb topped Hampshire's batting averages in the Twenty20 Cup, After uncertainty about his future at Hampshire, Lamb was retained ahead of the 2007 season. He found himself out of the first eleven in 2007, making two one-day and seven T20 appearances. He featured more regularly the following season, beginning the season as Hampshire's main spinner following the departures of Shaun Udal and Shane Warne. He made nine appearances in the County Championship, He also made ten appearances in the Twenty20 Cup, Lamb was released at the end of the 2008 season, having been displaced as Hampshire's first-choice spinner by Liam Dawson and Imran Tahir. Lamb joined Wiltshire in minor counties cricket prior to the 2009 season. He had success in the MCCA Knockout Trophy scoring 259 runs at an average of 129.50, and in the Minor Counties Championship he made one century.

Return to Zimbabwe With the launch of a domestic franchise system in Zimbabwe ahead of the 2009–10 season, Lamb returned there to play for Mashonaland Eagles. He was prolific in his first season back in Zimbabwean domestic cricket, passing a thousand runs first-class in a season for the only time in his career, with 1,050 at an average of 61.76 from 12 matches in the Logan Cup. and 171 runs against Mid West Rhinos. His third, a score of 159 runs, came in the competitions drawn final against Mid West Rhinos, with Lamb also sharing in a partnership of 211 runs for the fifth wicket with Elton Chigumbura; the Eagles won the competition having topped the round-robin league stage.

Lamb made his debut for Zimbabwe on the tour in a Twenty20 International (T20I) match against the West Indies that preceded the ODIs. In the T20I, Lamb bowled economically, taking 2 for 14 from four overs. In March, he was named in Zimbabwe's squad for the World Twenty20 in the West Indies in May, playing in both their group stage defeats to New Zealand and Sri Lanka. In four one-day matches in the Metbank Pro40 Championship, The Eagles reached the final of the Stanbic Bank 20, which they won by a single run. Lamb made six appearances in the competition, taking 6 wickets at an average of 21.83.

In January 2011, Lamb was named in Zimbabwe's fifteen-man squad for the 50-over World Cup in the West Indies. He played in five of their ten matches, Having impressed in a two-day warm-up match between a Zimbabwe XI and the touring Pakistanis at the end of August, he played in the only Test match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan at Bulawayo at the beginning of September, scoring 39 runs in Zimbabwe's first innings and taking 3 for 120 in Pakistan's first innings. He subsequently played in the first ODI of the three-match series that followed the Test. In that seasons Logan Cup, he scored 476 runs at an average of 36.61 from eight matches, making two centuries, opting to work on his parents farm.

Lamb returned to professional cricket in October 2014, feeling that wages for cricketers in the country had improved. He made himself available for Zimbabwe's tour of Bangladesh, he scored 182 runs at an average of 36.40 from eight matches.

Post-retirement Lamb was appointed batting coach of Zimbabwe Under-19 in 2015, alongside bowling coach Prosper Utseya and head-coach Stephen Mangongo. He accompanied the under-19s to the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. His contract was terminated in April 2018, which saw several staff across both age-group and the national teams sacked following Zimbabwe's failure to qualify for the 2019 World Cup. He played club cricket in Ireland in 2019, playing for The Hills in the Leinster Senior League. He rejoined the coaching staff of the Zimbabwe Under-19 team in December, being appointed their batting coach ahead of their participation in the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He played club cricket for Minster in the Kent Cricket League between 2021 and 2025, and was the club's director of youth cricket.

Playing style and statistics An all-rounder, David Houghton rated him as the best spinner in Zimbabwe during the formative years of his career, remaking on his loop and ability to generate spin on the ball. He took 12 ODI wickets at an average of 38.91. In T20I cricket, he made five appearances, scoring 32 runs and taking 4 wickets at an average of exactly 20. In first-class cricket, Lamb made 70 appearances, scoring 3,316 runs at an average of 33.49, making seven centuries and 14 half-centuries. With the ball, he took 80 wickets at an average of 38.92. He scored 1,778 runs at an average of 26.53 from 98 appearances in one-day cricket, making nine half-centuries alongside one century, and took 54 wickets at an average of 35.83. He made 63 appearances in T20 cricket, scoring 762 runs at an average of 17.31, with three half centuries. He also took 32 wickets at an average of 28.90. Lamb favoured fielding at point or in the covers. Across all formats, he held 102 catches.