{"id":34984,"date":"2025-07-31T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34984\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:17:07","slug":"wi-cricket-legends-lloyd-greenidge-arrive-in-svg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34984\/","title":{"rendered":"WI cricket legends Lloyd &#038; Greenidge arrive in SVG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies cricket legends Sir Clive Lloyd and Sir Gordon Greenidge have arrived in St Vincent for the Emancipation Cricket Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will take place from 30 July to 1 August at the Arnos Vale cricket stadium.<\/p>\n<p>While in SVG, the legends will engage in a panel discussion on Cricket as a public good along with sharing their invaluable insights and experiences with young aspiring cricketers.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Tourism Carlos James stated on Monday that St Vincent and the Grenadines has taken a significant step to immortalize the legendary 1975 West Indies World Cup-winning cricket team by renaming the double-decker stands at Arnos Vale Sporting Complex \u201cThe Legends Stand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>St Vincent\u2019s Parliament passed the \u20181975 Men\u2019s West Indies World Cup Cricket Team Citizenship Bill, 2024\u2019 on Monday night, which allows the legends to be eligible for Vincentian citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies cricket legends Sir Clive Lloyd and Sir Gordon Greenidge have arrived in St Vincent for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-34984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}