Players / Sir Viv Richards

India's exit from World Twenty20 2010

Viv Richards offers batting consultant role for India

May 16, 2010: Vivian Richards has offered his services as a batting consultant to the team to help them deal with their weakness against the short ball

ICC World Twenty20 2010

Richards looks to T20 to lay ghosts of 2007

Apr 24, 2010: Sir Viv Richards believes that next week's World Twenty20 will provide Caribbean cricket the perfect opportunity to lay the ghosts of the 2007 World Cup

Viv Richards

'I felt I was an artist'

Feb 22, 2010: Viv Richards, the only captain under whom West Indies never lost a series, speaks about the sense of confrontation he brought to his cricket, his first Test in Antigua and his success against England

West Indies v England, 5th Test, Antigua, 1986

Caesar returns triumphant

Jan 31, 2010: The greatest cricketer of his generation, and the moment of his fulfillment

Collis King on Viv Richards

Not a man to be bowling at

Jan 26, 2010: You thanked the stars that you were playing on the same team

Big-time brutality

Dec 10, 2009: Virender Sehwag made one of the fastest double-hundreds of all time last week. We look at some of Test cricket's other most savage and decisive innings

West Indies in Australia 2009-10

Gayle must respect Windies legacy - Richards

Nov 10, 2009: Sir Vivian Richards has called on Chris Gayle to put the West Indies contract dispute firmly behind him and lead his team in a manner befitting the region's legacy

How rude, I say

Oct 1, 2009: Captains who lacked courtesy towards their opponents (or the game itself)

West Indies in England 2009

Chasing Viv

May 16, 2009: Their figures are so similar as to be almost identical yet, in every other way, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and VIV Richards are polar opposites

England v West Indies, 2nd npower Test, Durham

Richards and Sobers defend primacy of Test cricket

May 13, 2009: Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Vivian Richards have defended the primacy of Test cricket in the wake of the withering critique launched by Chris Gayle

Series review

The Stanford Super Series 2008-09

Apr 15, 2009: A review of the Stanford Super Series, 2008-09

West Indies v England, 5th ODI, St Lucia

Richards concerned about Windies' focus

Apr 2, 2009: Sir Vivian Richards fears that the unresolved dispute between the West Indies Cricket Board and the Players' Association could work in England's favour as they seek an improbable victory in the ODI series that culminates in St Lucia on Friday

England in West Indies 2008-09

England were complacent - Richards

Mar 13, 2009: Sir Vivian Richards believes that complacency cost England dear in their recent Test series in the Caribbean, as West Indies held onto their 1-0 lead to reclaim the Wisden Trophy for the first time in nine years

No. 7

Richards runs out three

Feb 1, 2009: The King makes Lord's gape in the first World Cup final - and this time he doesn't have to use the bat

Stanford 20/20 for 20

Stanford legends given the chop

Dec 17, 2008: Reports that the Stanford's legends group has been disbanded have been confirmed by a spokesman for the organisation

Stanford Super Series 2008-09

A restless tycoon

Oct 25, 2008: Ivo Tennant previews the Stanford Super Series which gets underway on Saturday

The Wisden Cricketer - May 2008

From Grace to Hick

Aug 2, 2008: How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

Australia in the West Indies 2008

Lee as good as Windies greats - Richards

Jul 1, 2008: Viv Richards, who captained some of the most fearsome fast bowlers of all time, says Brett Lee is the equal of the West Indies quicks of the 1980s and early 90s

West Indies v Australia, 3rd Test, Barbados

Richards calls for Barbados pace battery

Jun 11, 2008: Viv Richards wants West Indies to retain their bulging pace attack to take advantage of a Kensington Oval pitch that is expected to help the fast men in Thursday's third Test

Raised on radio

Feb 28, 2008: In the West Indies, the relationship you formed with cricket was filtered through one omnipresent medium