Viv Richards : Ask Biography

Personal information

Full name

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards

Birth Date (Y-M-D)

1952-3-7

Place of birth

St. John's

Country of birth

Antigua

Nickname

Master Blaster, Smokey, Smokin Joe, King Viv

Height

5 ft 10 inch (1.8 m)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm medium/off-break

Role

Batsman

Country

West Indies

Test Debut

22 November 1974 v India

Last Test

8 August 1991 v England

ODI debut

7 June 1975 v Sri Lanka

Last ODI

27 May 1991 v England

Domestic team information

Glamorgan

1990 � 1993

Queensland

1976 � 1977

Somerset

1974 � 1986

Leeward Islands

1971 � 1991

Combined Islands

1971 � 1981

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Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952) is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne. In February 2002, he was judged by Wisden to have played the best One Day International (ODI) innings of all time. In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the greatest ODI batsman of all time, as well as the third greatest Test batsman of all time, after Sir Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar.