CLIVE Lloyd today called for Lancashire to install a `Hall of Fame' at Old Trafford.

"It would be something to make your spine tingle when you go into the ground," said Big Clive, one of the club's all-time greats.

"When you go to the Old Trafford football ground you get the feeling of `I'm coming into a great place'. It's the same in Australia at the MCG."

Lloyd wants big pictures of the top Lancashire stars, with summaries of their careers, hung on the walls to remind current players and fans that the Red Rose represents one of the most famous clubs in the world.

"I think we should concentrate on developing our home-grown players," he added. "And we must get through to them the importance of Old Trafford.

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"If you understand what you represent it gives you an uplift. This is Lancashire - that is the first thing we should tell them."

Lloyd, now travelling the world as an International Cricket Conference match referee, would be top, or near it, on any list of candidates for a Hall of Fame.

One of the most successful Test captains of all time, he played for Lancashire from 1968 to 1986, helping them to achieve the title of kings of one-day cricket in the early 1970s.

Lancashire have enjoyed so many legendary players but here is my Hall of Fame, a list of 20 based on three categories, and with the proviso that none should be currently connected to the club:

More than 100 appearances for Lancashire, good enough for Test cricket.

Overseas stars.

Special contributions to the club.

You could fill almost every wall in the pavilion with players from the first group, starting with the two great pioneers RG Barlow and A N Hornby, whose portraits adorn the Long Room.

Also from the early days is the brilliant but tragic Johnny Briggs, who died at the age of 39 and, of course, Archie MacLaren, the epitome of the `Golden Age.'

Later there were the free-scoring Tyldesley brothers, `J T' and Ernest, fast bowler Ted McDonald, keeper George Duckworth, left-hander Eddie Paynter, and, after the second World War, Cyril Washbrook and Brian Statham.

From more recent times, Mike Atherton - admittedly an England player first and foremost, but who gave more for Lancashire than many realised - and Neil Fairbrother.

Clive Lloyd tops the overseas category, followed by Wasim Akram, Farokh Engineer and Muttiah Muralitharan . . . who while only making a handful of appearances, wrote his name into the club's history and endeared himself to everyone.

As for those who have made special contributions, without necessarily ranking as great players, captains such as Lionel Green, Peter Eckersley, and Jack Bond come to the fore.

M.E.N. Sport wants to hear your Old Trafford Hall of Fame. Write to: Colin Evans, Sports Desk, Manchester Evening News, 164 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3RN or submit your comments below

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