Celebrating sixty years of Viv

The 60th anniversary of the Viv Richard's birth is a reminder how his strut alone could turn bowlers to quivering wrecks, says Frank Keating, writing in the Guardian's blog.

Antigua's cricketing knight celebrates with a round of golf on the island's blissful Cedar Valley course while the cricketing world wishes happy returns to one of its most imperishable monarchs. Can it really be 21 years since that cathartic Test match finale at The Oval when an enraptured full house rose in farewell as, at the pavilion gate, Sir Viv Richards turned to doff his faded old maroon cap to all sides in courtly acknowledgement?

In Mid-Day, Richards tells Clayton Murzello that he's going to celebrate his birthday by playing golf with Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee, Garfield Sobers and Everton Weekes in a tournament to raise money for Breast Friends, a breast cancer organisation.