(1944-08-31) 31 August 1944 (age 79) Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana)
Nickname
Big C, Hubert, Super Cat[1]
Height
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting
Left-handed
Bowling
Right-arm medium
Role
Batsman
Relations
Lance Gibbs (cousin)
International information
National side
West Indies (1966–1985)
Test debut (cap 125)
13 December 1966 v India
Last Test
30 December 1984 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 9)
5 September 1973 v England
Last ODI
6 March 1985 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years
Team
1964–1983
Guyana/British Guiana
1968–1986
Lancashire
Career statistics
Competition
Test
ODI
FC
LA
Matches
110
87
490
378
Runs scored
7,515
1,977
31,232
10,915
Batting average
46.67
39.54
49.26
40.27
100s/50s
19/39
1/11
79/172
12/69
Top score
242*
102
242*
134*
Balls bowled
1,716
358
9,699
2,926
Wickets
10
8
114
71
Bowling average
62.20
26.25
36.00
27.57
5 wickets in innings
0
0
0
0
10 wickets in match
0
0
0
0
Best bowling
2/13
2/4
4/48
4/33
Catches/stumpings
90/–
39/–
377/–
146/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing West Indies
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner
1975 England
Winner
1979 England
Runner-up
1983 England and Wales
Source: Espncricinfo, 24 January 2009
Sir Clive Hubert LloydCBE AO, CM (born 31 August 1944) is a Guyanese-British former cricketer and captain of the West Indies cricket team. Lloyd is widely regarded as one of the greatest captains of all time. As a boy he went to Chatham High School in Georgetown. At the age of 14 he was captain of his school cricket team in the Chin Cup inter-school competition.[2] One of his childhood memories is of sitting in a tree outside the ground overlooking the sightscreen watching Garry Sobers score two centuries for West Indies v Pakistan.[2] Lloyd captained the West Indies in three World Cups, winning in 1975 (with Lloyd scoring a century) and 1979 while losing the 1983 final to India.
In 1971 he was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. He captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the greatest Test and One Day International team of the 20th century, only Australia achieved a similar success under the captaincy of Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting later. He 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 (Viv Richards acted as captain for one of the 27 matches, against Australia at Port of Spain in 1983–84).[3] He was the first West Indian player to earn 100 international caps.
Lloyd was a tall, powerful middle-order batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler. In his youth he was also a strong cover point fielder. He wore his famous glasses as a result of being poked in the eye with a ruler.[1] His Test match debut came in 1966. Lloyd scored 7,515 runs at Test level, at an average of 46.67. He hit 70 sixes in his Test career, which is the 14th highest number of any player. He played for his home nation of Guyana in West Indies domestic cricket, and for Lancashire (he was made captain in 1981) in England. Lloyd was the first West Indian player to take a wicket on his first ball on ODI debut. He is a cousin of spin bowler Lance Gibbs. Since retiring as a player, Lloyd has remained heavily involved in cricket, managing the West Indies in the late 1990s, and coaching and commentating. He was an ICC match referee from 2001 to 2006.
In 2009, Lloyd was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[4] He was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to cricket.[5][6]
^ abWide World of Sports Cricket Yearbook 1985 – "Farewell Super Cat" written by Ian Chappell, pp: 110–13, PBL Marketing, Pty Ltd, 1985. ISSN 0813-7439 ISBN 0 00 217484 7
^ abBABB, COLIN. (2020). 1973 AND ME : the england v west indies test series and a memorable childhood year. [S.l.]: Hansib. ISBN 978-1-912662-12-8. OCLC 1126669992.
^"Most successful cricket captains in history". 5 January 2023.
^"ICC and FICA launch Cricket Hall of Fame". ESPNcricinfo. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
^"No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N2.
^"Awards for NY2020" (PDF). Retrieved 27 December 2019.
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third wicket – that of Gomes – and Dev then caught West Indies captain CliveLloyd, leaving the West Indies at 66/5. Ten runs later, Faoud Bacchus was removed...
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thrown onto the field and fires were lit in the stand. Match referee CliveLloyd awarded the match to Sri Lanka, the first default ever in a Test or One...
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