HEADLINE: Sir Clive gives impassioned plea for unity amid West Indies cricket crisis

LEGENDARY WEST Indies cricket captain Sir Clive Lloyd on Monday made an impassioned plea for the region to come together in an effort to save West Indies cricket.

Sir Clive was moved to tears during an emotional tribute at the Emancipation Cricket Festival in St Vincent and the Grenadines, where he and other members of the West Indies’ 1975 World Cup-winning team were honoured.

Speaking at a packed luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, the 80-year-old Sir Clive struggled to hold back tears as he addressed senior national officials, dignitaries, former teammates, local cricket officials, and Vincentians.

“We made our West Indians walk tall wherever they were, and we should continue to do so if we can only tell these young men the importance of cricket in our lives. Where would we have been without cricket? To me, cricket has given me upward mobility and done a lot for people who have worked to see this game grow. We cannot let it die. We must save West Indies cricket,” Sir Clive said.

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Clive since his retirement always want us to unite around WI cricket....whether or not the current situation is to the region's detriment. So in 2015, he chaired a committee that selected a team that clearly was not the strongest suit available at the time.....and the west indies captained by jason holder got unprecedented lix. they again picked a team to go australia that was not the strongest suit(as i said, any team from 2009-2015 that did not contain gayle AND chanderpaul was not the strongest team possible) and they got blanked 2-0 by Australia in the worst result against the Aussies up until that time, saddling poor Denesh Ramdin with a team that he had no chance with. And now he wants us to unite with a team that has a coach who has no qualifications and does not feel that he needs to pursue such, and a batting coach whgo averaged 30 as a FC batsman and has a reputation of turning everything he touches into worthlessness(the 20156 embarrassments were only surpassed by the humiliations of 2019, where the 'genius' duo of holder and this dude combined to cause the west indies to lose 6 of the 9 matches they played in the tournament. come better that that clive