#clive lloyd

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West Indies Players' Strike — Heathrow Sit-Down, November 1998

West Indies

1998-11-05

On November 5, 1998, West Indies' touring squad — heading to South Africa for their first post-apartheid tour — refused to board the connecting flight from London to Johannesburg. Captain Brian Lara and vice-captain Carl Hooper led nine players in a stand-off with the West Indies Cricket Board over allowances and tour fees. The team holed up at Heathrow's Excelsior Hotel for almost a week. The board sacked Lara and Hooper, then reinstated them, and the squad arrived in South Africa demoralised and unprepared. They lost the Test series 5-0.

#west-indies#brian-lara#carl-hooper

🔥Explosive

Eden Gardens 1996 World Cup Semi-Final — The Crowd Riot That Awarded the Match

India vs Sri Lanka

1996-03-13

On March 13, 1996, an estimated 110,000 spectators at Eden Gardens watched India collapse from 98/1 to 120/8 chasing 252 against Sri Lanka. As the Indian innings disintegrated, sections of the crowd set fire to the stands and threw bottles onto the field. Match referee Clive Lloyd halted play, returned briefly, and finally awarded the semi-final to Sri Lanka. Vinod Kambli walked off in tears.

#1996-world-cup#eden-gardens#kolkata

⭐Serious

Clive Lloyd Retires from Captaincy — End of an Era, 1985

West Indies

1985-01-20

Clive Lloyd retired from international cricket and the West Indies captaincy at the end of the 1984-85 Australian tour, ending an 11-year reign that included two World Cup finals, the Blackwash, and the most successful captaincy in cricket history at the time.

#clive-lloyd#west-indies#captaincy

⭐Serious

Blackwash — West Indies 5-0 vs England, 1984

England, West Indies

1984-08-13

Clive Lloyd's West Indies became the first touring side to win every Test of a five-match series in England, sweeping the home team 5-0 in a result that was instantly nicknamed the 'Blackwash'.

#west-indies#england#test-series

⭐Serious

Gordon Greenidge's 214* at Lord's — The Chase of 342 in 1984

England, West Indies

1984-07-02

Set 342 in 78 overs by David Gower's declaration, Gordon Greenidge made an unbeaten 214 at better than a run a ball to win the Lord's Test for West Indies with two overs to spare.

#gordon-greenidge#west-indies#england

⭐Mild

The First Cricket World Cup — Lord's, 1975 Final, West Indies vs Australia

West Indies vs Australia

21 June 1975

The first Cricket World Cup — the Prudential World Cup of 1975 — culminated in a 60-overs-a-side final at Lord's on 21 June, in which West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs. Clive Lloyd's 102 from 85 balls anchored West Indies' 291/8; Vivian Richards ran out three Australian batters, including the Chappell brothers; Australia were dismissed for 274 in 58.4 overs. The match finished after 8.43 pm under summer twilight and crowned West Indies as the inaugural one-day champions.

#1975 World Cup#World Cup#Clive Lloyd

⭐Mild

Clive Lloyd's Test Debut — West Indies vs India, Bombay, December 1966

India vs West Indies

1966-12-13

Clive Lloyd of British Guiana made his Test debut against India in Bombay in December 1966, at 22. The tall left-hander — six feet five in his socks, with the wrists and timing of a much lighter man — scored 82 not out in his first innings and announced a presence that would dominate West Indian cricket for the next fifteen years. Lloyd would go on to captain West Indies through their most dominant era.

#clive-lloyd#west-indies#debut