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Y'all keep calm, keep calm 😅 it was a meeting of the Greats 😂 ok I had a brief meeting with the GOAT in Cricket. Just before he got his Honorary Doctorate 😂 God bless you Sir Clive Lloyd or Dr. Clive Lloyd.

"Sir Clive Hubert Lloyd CBE AO (born 31 August 1944) is a Guyanese-British former cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team. 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. 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.

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 dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s. 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 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.

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. 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. 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. He was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to cricket.

Lloyd made his Test debut on 13 December, 1966 against India. He scored 82 in the first innings and 78 not out in the second.

In 1971–72, Lloyd suffered a back injury while playing for a Rest of the World team at the Adelaide Oval. He was fielding in the covers when Ashley Mallett hit a lofted drive towards his area. He made an effort to take the catch but it bounced out of his hands when he hit the ground awkwardly. When he went to get up, he felt a stabbing pain in his back and he was unable to move. He spent the next few weeks in an Adelaide hospital flat on his back.

In the 1975 Cricket World Cup Final against Australia, the West Indies were deep in trouble at 3/50 when Lloyd strode to the crease. He duly made 102 from 85 balls, the only limited overs international century of his career. With Rohan Kanhai he added 149 for the West Indies to win by 17 runs. Play ended at 8:40pm and was the longest day's play ever at Lord's.

On 22 January 1985, 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.

In 2005, Lloyd offered his patronage to Major League Cricket for their inaugural Interstate Cricket Cup in the United States, to be named the Sir Clive Lloyd Cup. His son, Jason Clive Lloyd, is a goalkeeper for the Guyana national football team. In 2007, Lloyd's authorised biography, Supercat, was published. It was written by the cricket journalist Simon Lister.

In 2022, Lloyd received a knighthood at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle.

Clive is regarded as one of the greatest captains in the history of the game."

In reply to Dukes

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In reply to Dukes
I was privileged to see him play in his first Jones cup game for Demerara against Berbice at Rose Hall CC ground in 1964. Both teams had several young players with crazy talent on debut. Demerara had left handers Clive Lloyd and Horton Dolfin and Stephen Comacho. Their 12th man was a teenage sensation Robert Roopnarine (sixth former from either QC or Saints) who had just made history by scoring the first triple century in British Guiana against a Berbice under 18 team. I saw him make a flawless undefeated century against Berbice High School earlier that year and he was in a different league. The Berbice team also had two sensationally talented left handed newcomers opening batsmen Roy Fredericks and Romaine Etwaroo (RBK's nephew) and the hard hitting medium pace all-rounder Rex Ramnarace. BTW both Lloyd and Comacho failed to trouble the scorers.

These Guys were so talented that they could have easily made most West Indies team. Although three of them did, unfortunately we lost three to Scholarship, Horton to UWI, Robert, a Guyana scholar,to Cambridge and Romaine to University of Illinois.The most heartbreaking story was Romaine's, who was in a purple patch scoring three centuries in the Guyana trials in Georgetown. He did not receive any communication that he was selected and took the train back to Berbice. Fortunately, Roy was still in Georgetown and replaced him as opening batsman in the first game against Barbados, and the rest is history. It is alleged that he consulted his uncle RBK who advised him to accept the scholarship. Although he returned to Guyana 5 years later in 1971, he was never the same batsman.

In reply to Medusa

Thanks for your post.

1.Horton Dolphin left QC in 1964 and went to DCC where Clive Lloyd who had already left Chatham High School and was already playing for DCC under Fred Wills.

2.Stephen Camacho left St. Stanislaus College in 1964 and joined GCC and captained the B.G Colts vs the visiting Australians and made 157 while his opening partner Horton Dolphin made 61.

3.I have never heard of Robert Roopnarine but Rupert Roopnarine was a QC guy who won the Guiana Scholarship in 1962 and went to the UK and attended Cambridge University.He was heavily involved in politics and was close to Walter Rodney as a co-leader of the WPA.He later was a Government Minister of Education with the Coalition Government from 2015 to 2017.I wonder if it is him you are talking about.

3.Neither Romaine nor Roy was selected for that match vs Barbados in 1967 as Camacho was selected.However Camacho sustained an injury on the morning of the match and since Romaine had already gotten a train back to Berbice and Roy was still in Georgetown he played.I was there in South Stand to see Roy make 127 and 115 in that match and of course the rest is history

P.S Horton Dolphin later taught me Spanish at QC and lives in Jamaica and I have seen him a few times there.

In reply to Dukes

Didn’t Romain score a triple century in one of those Jones Cup matches in the ’70s???

In reply to StumpCam

I don't know

Will check

In reply to StumpCam

Romain Etwaroo has 3 first class centuries with the highest being 118 runs.One of those centuries was against Demerara for Berbice at Bourda which I saw.Romain made 81 and 100 while Len Baichan scored 216 and 100 Those were the two Barbican opening batsmen.
In those days the Jones Cup Finals were classified as first class so that was one of Romain's first class centuries.
I looked under Miscellaneous matches and included amongst them were matches between Berbice and Essequibo which were not first class.Romain did not score any centuries in the matches I looked thru but Tyrone Etwaroo scored a double century against Essequibo.
I am not saying that Romain did not score a triple century but I could not find any evidence of him doing so.