Intro

Vivian Richards is one of the world's best cricket players. He plays for The West Indies. He is a batter. Vivian Richards is known for smashing 6's!

Early Life

Sir Issac Vivian Alexander Richards was born on March 7 1952 in St. Johns, British Leeward Islands. His parents are Malcom and Gretel. Vivian's hometown is Antigua. His siblings are Donald and Mervyn.

Vivian got introduced to cricket at a very young age. The Richards practiced cricket with their father.

At just 18 years old Vivian Richards left school and joined Antigua cricket team.

Middle Life

Test debut against St Kitts

Vivian's debut for Antigua was against St Kitts and unfortunately for Vivian he got a golden duck. But Vivian didn't come on his bed or couch crying 'i got a golden duck i'm never playing cricket ever again in my whole life'. Instead he listened to his coach and went to the nets to fix what happened.

So Vivian chased his dreams of being a West Indian star batter but doesn't find shortcuts to them.

He felt a little embarrassed about the golden duck because he made about 6,000 fans sad.

The game was a test match so after an hour, In the second innings Vivian came to bat against St Kitts and got another duck!

He let 6,000 fans down again.

Becoming a star in the West Indies premier league

Later on Richards played for 2 clubs in the West Indies premier League called St Johns. The second one is Antigua.

West Indies!

In 1974 the big moment came!

Vivian Richards was selected for the West Indies!

His test debut was against India. It was a 5 match series against India.

In test 2 he scored an unbeaten 192.

1983 World Cup

In the late 1900s the West Indies was the strongest team in cricket.

They had legends like Andy Roberts, Courtney Walsh, Brian Lara and Vivian Richards ofcourse.

Once in that world cup West Indies had beaten Australia by 101 runs. 101 run triumph was a big thing back then.

Australia and India were weak teams and West Indies versed India mostly.

Kapil Dev is an Indian cricketer and once his wife came to watch the game. While Vivian Richards was batting then a girl said to Kapil Dev's wife 'He is ganna eat you up'.

But in the final it was against India and Vivian got caught out by an Indian player named Roger Binny. But Vivian still scored really good and as an upset India had won!

Jeetaga Jeetaga India Jeetaga became a hindi song then.

Late Life

Ending stuff

Vivian Richards should be remembered because of his healthy eating and what he does for the West Indies. If Vivian didn't achieve his goals we would never have a West Indies star like this maybe other than Brian Lara.

Vivian richards even refused to wear a helmet in every match but still wasn't scared!

What stands about him is his attitude and his smashing. Vivian chases his dreams but does not take any shortcuts.

The End