Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, under whom the Caribbean team dominated international cricket in the 1970s and 1980s, will be honoured with knighthood in Britain's New Year's Honours List. Lloyd, 75, has been honoured for his service to the game. The list also includes England's world cup winning captain Eoin Morgan and his teammates Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Jos Buttler.
Another Windies cricketing great, Gordon Greenidge, who played key role in the side that came to dominate the sport in the 1970s and 1980s, will receive knighthood.
"Congratulations to West Indies Great Clive Lloyd who is set to receive a Knighthood in the New Year for his outstanding service to cricket," tweeted West Indies Cricket board from their official handle. Llyod, who captained the West Indies from 1974 until 1985, will join the likes of Gary Sobers, Everton Weekes and Vivian Richards to receive the accolade.
From the England cricket team, all-rounder Stokes was awarded an OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II after he grabbed the headlines in a dramatic summer of cricket. He scored an unbeaten 84 as England became world champions with victory over New Zealand in July, and followed it up six weeks later with a match-winning 135 not out in the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
Morgan has been made a CBE, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler and test skipper Joe Root both got MBEs.
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Manchester City footballer Jill Scott, part of the England squad, which reached the semifinals of the Women's World Cup in France earlier this year, received an MBE Member of the Order of the British Empire as do England netball stars Serena Guthrie and Joanne Harten.
Sue Campbell, the Football Association's director of women's football, was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knighthood, in the list of honours made public late Friday. Double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones got an OBE.
The honours are awarded twice a year, at New Year's and to mark the monarch's official birthday in June.
