Lloyd: the vital statistics


Clive Hubert Lloyd. Born: 31 August 1944, Queenstown, Georgetown, British Guiana.

Left-hand batsman, right-arm medium fast bowler. Brilliant cover fielder. Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1971

Test debut: For West Indies against India at Bombay, Ist Test, 1966-67. Last Test:West Indies vs Australia at Sydney, 5th Test, 1984-85.

One-day debut: West Indies v England at Leeds, Prudential Trophy, 1973. Last one-day international: West Indies v Pakistan at Melbourne, World Championship of Cricket, 1984-85.

Major teams: West Indies, Lancashire and Guyana.

Career highlights: Captained the West Indies from the Ist Test against India in Bangalore, 1974, till the 5th Test against Australia in Sydney, 1984-85, a total of 74 Tests of which 36 were won.

Known for introducing the four-man pace attack which became a trademark of West Indies teams for most of the 80s and 90s. Under him the West Indies began their domination of world cricket, never losing a Test series from 1980-81 till he gave up the captaincy; this record continued till the series against Australia in 1995.

Lloyd had a run of 11 wins on the trot from 1983 to 1984-85. Curiously, both his last Test and last one-dayer ended in defeats. He now lives in England and was formerly manager of the West Indies team.


Career statistics

Batting: M I NO Runs 50s 100s HS Avge ct st
Tests: 110 175 14 7,515 39 19 242* 46.67 90 -
One-dayers: 87 69 19 1,977 11 1 102* 39.54 39 -
First-class 490 730 96 31,232 172 79 242* 49.26 377 -
Bowling Balls Mdns Runs Wkts 5WI 10WM Best Avge
Tests 1,716 75 622 10 - - 2-13 62.20
One-dayers 358 7 210 8 - - 2-4 26.25
First-class - - 4,104 114 - - 4-48 36.00

For Lancashire - batting

Matches Innings NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avge Catches
219 326 42 12,764 217* 30 - 44.94 161

Batting - by country

Country Tests Innings NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avge Catches Ducks
vs England 34 51 4 2,120 132 5 13 45.11 32 1
vs Australia 29 48 4 2,211 178 6 12 50.25 24 2
vs New Zealand 8 14 - 234 44 - - 16.71 3 -
vs India 28 44 4 2,344 242* 7 12 58.60 20 1
vs Pakistan 11 18 2 606 157 1 2 37.88 11 -

How he got out

Country Bowled Ct CWk C&b St Lbw Run-out Nemeses
England 10 16 13 3 - 5 - John Snow (5), Tony Greig (5)
Australia 7 20 13 1 - 5 - Jeff Thomson (5), Geoff Lawson (4)
New Zealand 2 5 3 - - 2 2 Bob Cunis (2) Richard Hadlee (2)
India 6 17 6 1 3 3 4 B.S. Bedi (7), B.S. Chandrasekhar (7)
Pakistan 2 9 2 - - 2 1 Imran Khan (4), Sarfraz Nawaz (2)
Total (161) 27 67 37 5 3 15 7 B.S. Bedi (7), B.S. Chandrasekhar (7)

Test captaincy record


Opponents Played Won Lost Drawn % won Toss won Toss lost
Australia 22 12 7 3 54.55 9 13
England 18 11 0 7 61.11 9 9
India 20 10 3 7 50.00 10 10
New Zealand 3 0 1 2 -- 1 2
Pakistan 11 3 1 7 27.27 6 5
Grand total 74 36 12 26 48.65 35 39

Thanks to Rick Eyre, The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and Ric Finlay's Test Cricket Database for all the statistics.

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