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.