"I Am Very Impressed With Ganguly"
Ganguly, with the kind of team he has, will come out trumps soon, says the Supercat.
No other batsman has ever hit the ball harder and no other captain has inspired as much awe and respect. Seventeen years after retirement, Clive Hubert Lloyd still walks the same way he used to amble up to the wicket with his heavy bat, nicknamed Big Bertha. He still has that famous slouch, and the spectacles, and the bemused expression. Cricket, he says, runs in his blood. It has to—7,500 runs, 19 centuries, an amazing average of 46.67. He led the Windies to two World Cup victories and built a near-invincible team which, under him, played 74 tests, won 36 of them and lost only 12. In the capital last week to launch the Electrolux Kelvinator Wisden Indian Cricketer of the Century awards, co-sponsored by
the man known as Supercat speaks to Sandipan Deb and Bobby John Varkey about all things cricket.
What, in your words, are these awards about?
But how do you compensate for the fact that cricket today is very different from what it was, say, about two decades ago?
Would you say that too much of cricket is robbing the game of its charm?
But with so much money riding on cricket, do you see the number of matches going down in the future?
Why did West Indian cricket go into decline?
After Walsh and Ambrose, do you see anybody carrying the West Indian legacy of fast bowlers forward?
You didn't have a very happy time as team manager...
There is a sense that the present Windies batsmen like Lara, Hooper and Chanderpaul are underachievers...
What's your forecast about the India-West Indies series?
Still too much of a dependence on Tendulkar,you'd say?
You led by example. How would you rate Ganguly by your yardstick?
Regarding Shoaib Akhtar's 100 mph speed, would you say any in your days were as fast but were never clocked?
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