Drinking heavily at night … woke up in the morning and hit a century, the bowler had to mess with the bite

Last Updated:March 07, 2025, 18:47 is

Viv Richards is counted among the aggressive openers of the world. This destructive batsman turned 73 on March 7. Richards was the most dreaded batsman in the 80s. The bowlers were trembling when he came in front.Read more

New Delhi. Veteran batsman Viv Richards used to speak in the 80s of Richards. The right -handed batsman gave a memorable victory to the West Indies by playing many unmatched innings. The best bowlers were also afraid to bowl in front of the hand batsman Richards. He used to break brutally on the bowlers. His name is recorded many records. Richards is the only cricketer in the world who has played in the Cricket World Cup as well as the World Cup football qualifier. Richards is the same cricketer who drank a lot of alcohol at night and woke up in the morning and scored a brilliant century. He was not able to see the ball well while drunk, but after inciting the bowler, he attacked the next ball so loudly that the ball fell into the river. Viv Richards shared this incident in an interview a few years ago.

Vivian Richards was part of the World Cup winning team twice. This ideal of veteran Sichan Tendulkar ruled cricket for a long time. He was in the form of the Batting reed bone of the Windies team. He had a separate fire on the ground. Viv Richards used to bat while chewing cheating in the mouth. Richards has 35 international centuries. But one of these centuries is also such that they regret it till date. A few years ago, Richards said in an interview that as a player he regrets one thing that he should not have done.

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Viv Richards said, 'Once I drink a lot of alcohol with Ian Botham on the night before the match. Due to drug addiction I could not see the ball right during batting the next day. I was constantly missing the ball. The same thing went on with me for some time. During this time, a bowler named Thomas Greg tried to incite me. He said that Viv is the ball red, the round is and bounces. After this Viv got angry. Richards told that initially I missed many balls. Greg tried to put the next ball on the wicket. I closed my eyes and turned the bat and the ball fell into the nearby river.

After this, Greg Thomas avoided shaking eyes with veteran Viv Richards. But after some time Richards went to Greg and said that you know about the shape, size and color of the ball. Go and help others in finding the ball. After that Greg became completely embarrassed. In that match, Richards scored an innings of about 130 runs.

Richards has scored 8,540 runs in Test cricket while his name is 6,721 runs in ODIs. His batting average is 50.24 while his average in ODIs was 47. Viv's strike rate is 90.21 in the age while 86.08 in the Test. He has taken 35 centuries in international cricket.