BBC SPORTArabicSpanishRussianChinese
BBCiNEWS  SPORT  WEATHER  WORLD SERVICE  A-Z INDEX   SEARCH 

BBC Sport
 You are in: Cricket 
Sport Front Page
-------------------
Football
Cricket
Statistics
Counties
Scorecards
The Ashes
World Cup
Rugby Union
Rugby League
Tennis
Golf
Motorsport
Boxing
Athletics
Other Sports
-------------------
Special Events
-------------------
Sports Talk
-------------------
BBC Pundits
TV & Radio
Question of Sport
-------------------
Photo Galleries
Funny Old Game
-------------------
Around The UK: 
N Ireland
Scotland
Wales

BBC Sport Academy
News image
BBC News
News image
BBC Weather
News image
SERVICES
-------------
LANGUAGES
EDITIONS

Saturday, 20 July, 2002, 15:16 GMT 16:16 UK
Clive Lloyd: Man behind the moustache
Clive Lloyd and Courtney Walsh
Lloyd is a former captain and coach of West Indies
Former West Indies captain Lloyd, the ICC match referee for the forthcoming Test series between England and India, gave an insight into his private life to Jamie Theakston's Cricket Show.

Q: What was your best moment in cricket?

A: There are many: your first Test is always an aim as a youngster, your first Test century and the first win as captain. Actually captaining the West Indies was a crowning moment.

Another was winning the first World Cup and scoring a hundred in the final - that was another first.


Q: Who was your cricketing idol?

A: Lance Gibbs was my cousin so he was really a spur for me. I also admired Garfield Sobers so they were two great icons to look up to.


Q: Tell us something we don't know about Clive Lloyd.

Curtly Ambrose
Ambrose: far from a top-class musician
A: Probably people don't know that I'm a religious person. People don't know a lot about me, what music I like, what type of person I am.

They think that I'm aloof because I don't smile but when they get to know me they see a different side.


Q: Who are your favourite groups or singers?

A: I like to listen to mood music like Johnny Mathis, Diana Ross, Nat King Cole but also Frank Sinatra and Bryan Adams.


Q: Who were the musical wannabees in the West Indies dressing room?

A: Ambrose is a bit of a musician and Richie Richardson liked his guitar but I'm not sure if they were really top class. Other guys like Brendon Julian were quite musical; they were big on reggae and calypso music.


Q: If you were part of the West Indies et-up now what would you do differently?

A: You have to start again with an academy and you have to say to players they will be paid by performance for starters. You have to have some incentive for them to be more effective.


Q: Which famous people would you invite to a dinner party?

Michael Jordan
Jordan: An ideal dinner guest
A: Denzil Washington for one. I met Nelson Mandela for a short while and found him a really interesting person.

And Michael Jordan, just to find out what makes him tick to come back and do it all again.

Jamie Theakston's Cricket Show is on BBC Radio Five Live every Friday at 2005 BST.

 WATCH/LISTEN
 ON THIS STORY
Clive Lloyd
"People think I'm aloof because I don't smile"
See also:

01 Mar 02 | Cricket
01 Mar 02 | Cricket
Internet links:


The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

Links to more Cricket stories are at the foot of the page.


E-mail this story to a friend

Links to more Cricket stories

© BBC^^ Back to top

Sport Front Page | Football | Cricket | Rugby Union | Rugby League |
Tennis | Golf | Motorsport | Boxing | Athletics | Other Sports |
Special Events | Sports Talk | BBC Pundits | TV & Radio | Question of Sport |
Photo Galleries | Funny Old Game | N Ireland | Scotland | Wales