1. Clive Lloyd captained the West Indies in three World Cups, winning in 1975 and 1979 while losing the 1983 final to India.
44 Facts About Clive Lloyd
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Clive Lloyd captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become among the greatest Test and One Day International teams of the 20th century.
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Clive Lloyd is one of the most successful Test captains of all time: during his captaincy the side had a run of 27 matches without defeat, which included 11 wins in succession.
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Clive Lloyd was the first West Indian player to earn 100 international caps.
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Clive Lloyd wore his famous glasses as a result of being poked in the eye with a ruler.
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Clive Lloyd scored 7,515 runs at Test level, at an average of 46.67.
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Clive Lloyd hit 70 sixes in his Test career, which is the 14th highest number of any player.
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Clive Lloyd played for his home nation of Guyana in West Indies domestic cricket, and for Lancashire in England.
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Clive Lloyd was the first West Indian player to take a wicket on his first ball on ODI debut.
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Clive Lloyd is a cousin of spin bowler Lance Gibbs.
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Since retiring as a player, Clive Lloyd has remained heavily involved in cricket, managing the West Indies in the late 1990s, and coaching and commentating.
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Clive Lloyd was an ICC match referee from 2001 to 2006.
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In 2009, Clive Lloyd was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
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Clive Lloyd was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to cricket.
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Clive Lloyd grew up in Georgetown, British Guiana, where his father worked as a chauffeur for a local doctor.
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Clive Lloyd was the second oldest of two boys and four girls.
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Clive Lloyd was the captain of the Chatham High School cricket team from the age of 14.
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Clive Lloyd's father died in 1958, and Lloyd left school to work in the administrative section of the Georgetown hospital to help support the family at age 16.
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Clive Lloyd then played club cricket for Demerara Cricket Club.
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Clive Lloyd made his Test debut during the West Indian tour to India on 13 December 1966 against India.
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Clive Lloyd scored 82 in the first innings and 78 not out in the second.
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Clive Lloyd scored 861 runs in 1967 and then 1226 runs in 1968.
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Clive Lloyd played for the Derrick Robin's XI in 1967.
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Clive Lloyd then played for Lancashire from 1968 until 1986.
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Clive Lloyd scored 521 runs in John Player league matches in 1970 at an average of 57.88 and Lancashire won both the John Player's League and Gillette Cup in 1970.
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Clive Lloyd was fielding in the covers when Ashley Mallett hit a lofted drive towards his area.
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Clive Lloyd made an effort to take the catch but it bounced out of his hands when he hit the ground awkwardly.
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Clive Lloyd spent the next few weeks in an Adelaide hospital flat on his back.
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Clive Lloyd was able to return to the West Indies in February 1972 and played for Guyana against Barbados on 26 February and scored 60 runs.
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Clive Lloyd then scored 133 and 104 not out for Guyana against the touring New Zealand team.
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Clive Lloyd was recalled to play for the West Indies in the fourth test against New Zealand and was run out for 43 runs in the first innings.
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Clive Lloyd had to go to the radio commentary team and broadcast an appeal for calm which allowed the game to be restarted 20 minutes later.
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Clive Lloyd batted for 429 minutes and had a 250 run partnership with Deryck Murray.
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Clive Lloyd duly made 102 from 85 balls, the only limited overs international century of his career.
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Clive Lloyd was described as "more than able to handle everything the Australians threw at him after his team's sedate start".
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Clive Lloyd however had a successful tour with the bat scoring 469 runs at an average of 46.9.
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The humiliation of the defeat in Australia coupled with the incessant racism encountered during the matches documented in Fire in Babylon, served as an impetus for Clive Lloyd to nurture fast bowling talent and remake the existing image of West Indian cricket from "Caribbean crowd pleasers" to fierce competitors and winners.
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Clive Lloyd captained the West Indies on their tour of New Zealand in 1979.
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Clive Lloyd said of the tour "We were jaded and Viv Richards had gone home with a sore back".
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On 22 January 1985, Clive Lloyd was made an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to the sport of cricket, particularly in relation to his outstanding and positive influence on the game in Australia.
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Clive Lloyd's son, Jason Clive Lloyd, was a goalkeeper for the Guyana national football team.
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In 2022, Clive Lloyd received a knighthood at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle.
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Clive Lloyd is regarded as one of the greatest captains in the history of the game.
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Clive Lloyd is a fan of English football club Everton FC.