Popular cricket players of West Indian cricket team: Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers

Garfield, more commonly known to us as Gary, is an ex-cricketer of the West Indian cricket team. He captained his team and was extensively referred to as the greatest all-rounder and exercised immense expertise in batting, bowling and fielding.

In 1975, Gary was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II owing to his outstanding contribution and services to cricket on the whole. He was a genius who always performed with excellence and perfection. He broke the world record for the highest Test score of 364 at 21. Gary as a player was a remarkable fielder, left-arm bowler, known wrist spinning and played at a fast-medium pace. He was the first player to have hit a score of 6 sixes within an over in a first-class match. He was only 16 when he performed his first-class debut and the next year made his first appearance in a Test series.

Gary started off as a bowler but over a span of four years, hit a Test record as an individual batsman with his dominating score of 365 against Pakistan. When it comes to Gary’s accomplishments, the awards and honors he received are numerous amongst which stands his fantastic innings against Australia in 1971 wherein he scored 254 for the Rest of the World, his successive sixes and that in 1975, he was knighted for his productive services to cricket as a game.

Gary was and always will be recognized for his immense services contributed to the West Indies cricket team at the team and for his records and achievements!

 

Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Richard Benjamin Richardson

Richardson is a renowned name in the list of former West Indian cricketers. He also served his team as a captain during his tenure as a player. He stepped into the field of cricketer in 1982 as an opener with the Leewards Island. Following his season season, he went aboard the West Indian team to tour India during the season of 1983-84. He initiated batting in the middle-order and it didn’t take him long to emerge as an ostentatious batsman alongside being an outstanding fast bowler.

Soon after the retirement of Viv Richards from Test match, Richardson, better known as Richie was capped with the captaincy of the team. The team went out in the playing field 24 times under his captaincy out of which 11 matches were won. Richie captained for a good 4 years during which the team lost only one series that was played in 1995 against Australia.

Up till 1995, Richie played 86 Test matches and hit a score of 5,949 runs including 16 centuries. This superb West Indian player exhibited a strong profile against Australia, hitting a superb 9 centuries while the highest score was acquired in 1989 against India. Richardson played a total of 224 ODIs inclusive of 3 World Cups. The last international he played was the semi final for the World Cup of 1996 against Australia after which he resigned from the role of captainship.

Post-retirement from International cricket, Richie became the first ever high profile signing by the English All-Star Club Cricket Team: Lashings World XI and is also the present captain of the team.

 

Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Peter Jeffrey Dujon

Peter Jeffrey Dujon , a retired player of the West Indian cricket team, is a renowned wicketkeeper of the team during the 1980s when he dominated the field with his overwhelming presence behind the vase. Not just this, we was a superb and challenging batsman of the lower-order.

It was in 1974 that Peter Jeffrey Dujon made his first-class debut from where he went on to 200 first-class matches for West Indies cricket team and Jamaica. His superb career lasted over a good 19 years during which he scored around 10,000 runs averaging near 40 runs per innings. This was considered to be an outstanding graph scale when taken into comparison with other renowned wicket-keepers of the time. Not just this, he also bagged 447 catches along with 22 stumpings. Dujon was in fact one of the five cricketers in 1989 having been honored with the prestigious Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Upon his retirement in 1992, he has been employed as an assistant coach for the national team of his company contributing to the development of all emerging cricketers of his native Jamaica. He was a spectacular sight to watch on the field and his determined playing aura made his presence on the base even more influential.

Greatest cricket players of West Indian cricket team: Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose

Ambrose, a former cricketer of the West Indian cricket team, was a right-arm fast-pace bowler who made a prolific performance in his alliance with greatest West Indian cricket player Courtney Walsh which is quite evident from the 421 wickets they bagged in 49 Test matches. This giant cricketer was an overwhelming presence on the field owing to his rapid bowling speed and of course, his 6ft 7in was a terrifying scaffold for any batsman.

Vivian Richards scholarship served as a basis for Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose to arrive in England in 1986 and then played in the Liverpool and District Cricket tournament wherein he bagged 84 wickets within 362.1 overs and at an average of 9.80. In April 1998, Ambrose made his first Test appearance against Pakistan cricket team and in August 2000, announced his retirement when the tour of England came to its end. During his career in Test cricket, this giant of a player acquired 98 caps, bagged 405 wickets at an average of 20.99 and bowled a total of 1,001 maiden overs.

Ambrose made his best every performance by winning 8 for 45 against English cricket team in 1990. Not just this, he also won five wickets or more in 22 innings that including 7 wickets against only one run against Australian cricket team in 1993! He played in 176 ODIs in which he won 225 wickets in total.

Post retirement, Ambrose at present plays guitar in a band known as Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead. He has had the honour of being ranked at no.3 in Shane Warne’s list of 50 greatest players of his time. His aggressive yet hurricane-like appearance and style is still reminisced as Ian Botham called him ‘a cricketer who thrived on aggression and menace’ on Botham’s Century.

 

Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket player: Clive Hubert Lloyd

Clive Hubert Lloyd is a former cricket player of the West Indian cricket team which he captained from 1974-1985. Lloyd was quite a dominant and most successful Test captains and won over 27 matches without facing any trounce during the reign of his captaincy inclusive of 11 wins in a row. Lloyd was in fact the 1^st ever West Indian player to have earned 100 International Caps.

As an energetic middle-order batsman with a frequent medium-pace bowling style, Lloyd made his first-class debut in 1963-64 which was followed by the Lancashire League in 1967 wherein he played for Haslingden. He also made a debut for Warwickshire in 1968 and won his cap in the next season. Having made his Test debut in 1966 against India, hitting 82 and 78 not out as his feat then included a score of 102 runs to win the match. In 1971, he won the title of Wisden Cricketer of the Year owing to his superb performance over the past twelve months including the time when he hit 1600 runs at 47 for Lancashire.

Lloyd’s first tour as a captain during 1974-75 instigated a lot of improvement in his playing. He made 163 with only 85 balls in Bangalore in the first Test which was then followed by a 242 test-best in the 5^th Test innings played in Mumbai. Due to the Packer crisis, Lloyd resigned from the cricket arena yet returned for the 1979 World Cup to lead the team. This was when he made a highly consistent scale of scored with nine successive matches in a low wherein the lowest score was 49. He averaged 76 in the series played against the English cricket team, and made an exceptional 172.50 in domestic cricket.

Having worked as a civil servant for the Guyana Health Ministry, Lloyd has always retained his involvement with cricket by coaching and commentating. In 2008, he was also appointed as the Chairman of ICC Cricket Committee.

 

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