Sir viv richards biography of william

Widely regarded as the most devastating Test match batter of all time, even decades after his heyday, when T20 had made big hitting de rigeur, Viv Richards was a swaggering force of nature and an emblem of West Indian supremacy in their 1970s and '80s heyday.

Richards' power was awesome, he hooked devastatingly, and he never wore a helmet, rocking back from his front-foot base to take the ball from his eyeline in front of square. He could get so far forward that he was able to plant his left foot outside the line of off stump,eliminating lbw and creating a leg-stump line from where he would flick bowlers relentlessly through midwicket. Straighten the ball down the line of the stumps and the bowler stood a chance, but Richards rarely missed and they ran a terrible risk.

After two single-figure scores in his debut Test, in Bangalore, he served more accurate notice of how he meant to go on when he produced 192 not out, the centrepiece of a West Indies innings win, in hi

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