Sir Clive Lloyd was born and grew up in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). His love for cricket was evident from a young age, and he captained the Chatham High School team from the age of 14. Sadly, his father died in 1958 and Clive was forced to leave school and get a job when he was just 16. But his love for the sport never went, and he played club cricket for Demerara Cricket Team; he first represented British Guiana in 1964, before making his test debut two years later.
Whilst playing internationally, he made is highest test score in 1975 against India of 242*, and was the first West Indian to appear in 100 test matches.
After the tour to India in 1966, Clive joined Haslingden and played in the Lancashire League, of which he said, “It was a real culture shock when I first got there because it was pretty cold”.
In 1967 he made an impressive 861 runs, bettering this in 1968 with 1,226 runs! He played for Lancashire until 1986, during which time he won the John Player’s League and the Gillette Cup.
However, just because he was playing for a UK-based team, he hadn’t turned his back on his homeland completely, and captained the West Indies on their 1979 tour of New Zealand.
Even when his playing career slowed, stayed involved in the game as the West Indies coach and as an ICC Match Referee until he resigned at the end of 1999.
Sir Clive is now a popular cricket and sporting speaker, providing exhilarating talks and touching after-dinner speeches for corporate and private events.
Over his career, he has appeared on a range of popular television programmes, including A Question of Sport (1975-77), Wogan (1986), Masterchef (1992), This Is Your Life (1980-99), and They Think It’s All Over (2000), as well as on cricket shows Indian Summer: The Story of the 1983 World Cup (2008), Empire of Cricket (2009), and Cricket’s Greatest (2015).
