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Wasim Akram on Viv Richards Ian Botham who is regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders of all time and one of England's greatest cricketers, rates Richards as the greatest batsman he ever saw ahead of Sunil Gavaskar, Greg Chappell, Martin Crowe, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara. Michael Holding, often regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time and part of the West Indies four ...
Viv Richards has scored 24 centuries in Test matches and 11 centuries in One Day Internationals. Vivian Richards is a former international cricketer and captain of the West Indies cricket team. He has scored centuries (100 runs or more) in both Test and One Day International (ODI) matches. In 2000, he was knighted for his services to cricket ...
West Indies won the First ODI at Old Trafford comfortably, thanks to a huge 189* scored by Viv Richards. England bowled West Indies out for 179 in the Second ODI at Trent Bridge , and levelled the series 1–1, but West Indies restricted England to 196 runs in the deciding Third ODI at Lord's and won easily, by 8 wickets .
Of the 25 men to have scored 100 first-class centuries, all have been either natively English or English-qualified except Donald Bradman of Australia, Zaheer Abbas of Pakistan, Glenn Turner of New Zealand and West Indian Viv Richards. Zaheer Abbas (Gloucestershire), Turner (Worcestershire) and Richards (Somerset) all had substantial county ...
Denis Compton (Eng): 3 Test centuries at Old Trafford, a record held jointly with Gordon Greenidge, Alec Stewart, and Alastair Cook. Bob Simpson (Aus): 1 Test century at Old Trafford. Scored 311, the ground's only Test triple century, in 1964. Sir Viv Richards (WI): 1 Test and 1 ODI century at Old Trafford. His 189* in 1984, then a world record ...
Viv Richards and Michael Atherton. The West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of ...
King especially ripped through the English bowling, with a strike rate of 130.3. The West Indies were already at 5/238 when the 139 run partnership ended with the loss of Collis King. Vivian Richards and the tail then took the West Indies to a very imposing total of 286 (9 wickets, 60 overs). The English batsmen got off to a good start.
Viv Richards represented the West Indies 121 times in Test cricket. Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan represented his country in 88 Test matches. Steve Waugh played for Australia in 168 Test matches over 20 years. Jacques Kallis, the first and only all-rounder to achieve the doubles of 10,000 runs and 250 wickets in Tests and One Day Internationals.