Wednesday 21, April-2004

GEORGETOWN – Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has topped the list of five cricketers voted as Guyana’s all-time best.
The people of Guyana in the Scotiabank West Indian Jubilee gala event voted Lloyd, Rohan Kanhai, Carl Hooper, Lance Gibbs and Shivnarine Chanderpaul as Guyana’s best five cricketers.

Lloyd, credited with building the West Indies team of the mid-1970s into an overwhelmingly dominant force in world cricket, gained the most votes.

He was adjudged Guyana’s greatest player from an original list of 15 players which also included Basil Butcher, Stephen Camacho, Roy Fredericks, Alvin Kallicharan, Roger Harper, Robert Christiani, Faoud Bacchus, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Colin Croft and Joe Solomon.

The five players will advance to join five other players from Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the Combined Islands en route to the final selection of the five greatest West Indies players.

The Scotiabank West Indian Jubilee is a series of promotional events in celebration of 75 years of West Indies cricket.

Individual performance awards went to Colin Croft and Kanhai. Croft’s eight for 29 against India in Barbados in the 1981-82 series was adjudged the best bowling performance by a Guyanese in Tests.

Kanhai took the batting crown for his 256 against India at Calcutta in the 1958-59 series.

Three Shell special achievement awards went to commentator Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira, veteran scorer Ron Legall and Guysuco, which has upgraded several playing fields in the country. (CMC)

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	Clive Lloyd
	Price - US$59.95 (limited edition of 500) click here to add to your Trolley		Captain of West Indies in 74 Test matches, Clive led West Indies to two World Cup victories at Lords and 11 successive Test match victories in 1984. He has scored an 85-ball Test century, 242 not out against India and achieved an average of 46.68 from his 7,515 runs scored from 110 Test matches. Clive Lloyd was an explosive match winner and is seen in our poster in ruthless mood on his way to 171 not out against India during West Indies' win in the 2nd Test by an innings and 46 runs in December 1983 Click to Clive's website Back to Main Index

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