Timothy Andrew Lloyd (born 5 November 1956) is a former English

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er, who played in one Test match and three

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s for

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in 1984. His top score in

s was 49 at

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, England's top score in their only victory against the

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that summer. His only Test was against the same opposition, also in June 1984. After making ten runs, and batting for 33 minutes, Lloyd was hit on the head by the West Indian

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. Despite wearing a

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, Lloyd spent several days in hospital and did not play for the remainder of 1984. He never played for England again (although he was part of an "English Counties XI" tour of Zimbabwe that winter), and is the only Test Match opening batsman never to have been dismissed in Test cricket. He was both

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(1988–1992) and chairman for

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cricket before announcing his resignation on 15 November 2004 due to business difficulties. He led Warwickshire to its

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final victory in 1989 against

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. Lloyd made a total of 17,211 runs in all

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, with 29 centuries, and he took 23 wickets. He is no relation to fellow cricketers

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Clive Lloyd Sir Clive Hubert Lloyd (born 31 August 1944) is a Guyanese- British former cricketer and captain of the West Indies cricket team. Lloyd is widely regarded as one of the greatest captains of all time. As a boy he went to Chatham High School in ...

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