Paul Edwards meets Lancashire's new President Sir Clive Lloyd

Perhaps we should start at Buxton. It is a balmy Saturday afternoon in late May over half a century ago and I am sitting at the Bottom End of that tiny Park Ground, scarcely crediting my luck. Frank Hayes has just made a century and now Clive Lloyd is shredding the Derbyshire attack. He makes 167 in 167 minutes, an innings that includes 15 fours and eight sixes. The slow bowlers, Fred Swarbrook and Geoff Miller – almost all sides played two spinners in that era – bowl 31 overs for 205 runs. Lloyd, batting at the Pavilion End, swats their deliveries away and the ball arcs high into the woods that were once in the grounds of Normanton, a small public school. “At one stage, he hit seven sixes out of 50 runs,” reported Wisden’s correspondent.