BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The mem­bers of the West In­dies’ vic­to­ri­ous team that won the first-ever Crick­et World Cup in 1975 are set to re­ceive an award of US$10,000 from Crick­et West In­dies (CWI).

This was re­vealed on Sun­day night by CWI pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low dur­ing the eighth an­nu­al CWI/WIPA Awards Gala at Wyn­d­ham Grand Bar­ba­dos, which al­so marked the 50th An­niver­sary of the West In­dies’ leg­endary vic­to­ry at the in­au­gur­al ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup in Eng­land.

Sev­en mem­bers of that team, in­clud­ing cap­tain Sir Clive Lloyd, Deryck Mur­ray, Sir Vi­vian Richards, Lance Gibbs, Sir Andy Roberts, Col­lis King and Alvin Kallichar­ran were present at the awards.

Dr Shal­low de­scribed the play­ers as “rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies” and ex­plained that the mon­e­tary award was a “to­ken of ap­pre­ci­a­tion” for their ac­com­plish­ment.

“…In ad­di­tion to the medal­lion that you will col­lect tonight on be­half of the CWI board, I am pleased to an­nounce that we will be gift­ing each of these icons in at­ten­dance US$10 000.

“This is by no means your val­ue to crick­et, but just a to­ken of our ap­pre­ci­a­tion,” Dr Shal­low said.

“They gave us pride, they gave us iden­ti­ty, and they gave us hope. We must stand with them dur­ing and af­ter their play­ing days.”

CMC