Thanks for uploading these videos for younger-generation kids like me. I was born in the 90's and so I watched cricket in the 2000's. What a player Viv was!
I always felt sorry for any team facing the West Indies batting line-up in the mid 80s. They had to work like the devil to get Desmond Haynes or Gordon greenidge out - only to have Viv Richards come in! Oh, and then the other team would have to face Marshall, Garner, Holding and Baptiste plus Roger Harper's spin. It wasn't fair was it?!
I never ever wore a box cos there was nothing to hold it in place i dont know how anyone wears them cos they dont have straps to hold them in place everytime i tried it just rolled down my trouser leg so i just gave up and always batted without one
thanks for putting all these videos up here...I grew up during this period - the 70s and 80s and the Master Blaster is still the best IMO! Also alot of todays' and recent periods batsman never faced the might of the Windies in their glory days- i'm sure they'd have much worse averages if they'd have faced Garner, Holding, Marshall etc....
I do love WI (old) team. I have great respect for gutsy Sir Viv. I love his game, but I have much much much respect n love for Malcom Marshal, Michel Holding, Joel Garner & Courtney Walsh. My four best after Wasim Akram. I always enjoyed these bowlers' thinking.
@mili12367 You would not say that if you had seen how they practice. Even out of match season they would practice almost every week where Holding and Marshall would be bowling to Richards in a very difficult turf. Facing Marshal and Holding on international pitches is relatively easy compared to those practice sessions.
@fat1880 In ODI's, Afridi is the king of sixes., Gilchrist has the most sixes in tests, and Viv has the fastest century. Hitting Sixes in Tests is pretty much going against the object of the game yet King Viv and Gilly hit so many and maintained averages of around fifty, far ahead of Afridi.
Rob, u got anything from the 1975 series down under?? I had not seen much of this great Windies team untill i watched Fire in Babylon.. thanks 4 all the uploads man..Viv is really special..must hav been amazing seeing him bat live...
@DAJAZDJ1 Didnt need one. He was too good. Not every batsman wore helmets once they were introduced in 1977.If you had grown up smashing fast bowlers for 20 years with no helmet and never been hit on the head and were the greatest batsman in the world why change....
@robelinda thanks rob for this i am from india i watched cricket for last 20 years i listen lot about vivan by watching these highlights i think why bowlers feared by his force even imran khan speak very high of vivan richards is undoubtedly the best player in history of cricket
in 90s when aussie born rupert murdoch stared channel like fox and star for live cricket cricket become commericalized player have lot of money in 90s match fixing came ..do u thing there was match fixing in those days
@robelinda Very true, but I don't think we can hold it against the best batsmen today. A champion batsman in an era would have been champion in any era. And it does not make any sense to compare people across eras
@DAJAZDJ1 also some batsman didn't wear helmets because the pull shot was their favorite shot, so the bowlers would bowl shorter at them (aiming for the head) and being able to execute the shot more often.
@horimaoriguy Well that's what i have in common with him then i never wore an helmet or box.im the same age and from the same town as Ryan Sidebotham i played against him at under 13s we was both captains and even at that age he was mighty quick and i never wore a box or helmet facing him. In fact i accidently hit him for six he bowled that quick i never really saw it and got a top edge for 6 he clean bowled me the next ball as i was about to play a shot the stumps were already doing cartwheels
Can sachin Tendulkar hit tht kinda sixes?? lol cmon..Sachin is a great batsman,but these richardS and bradmanS are sachin,s father ....BAAP BAAP he hota ha ;)
Rob, I sometimes wonder what Viv could have done with some of these newer cricket bats with their obscenely bloated blades. The bats around his time were more conservative in design and featured thinner profiles. Also, the boundaries now are so ridiculously small, that a top-edge or a bunt over point or third-man goes for a six. Viv could have made a killing. Thanks for the great compilation. Keep them coming.
its not about sixes, its about attitude. the way he carried himself, his presence, that sent shiver down the finest bowler of his era. we might have better batsman today but no batsman today have that attitude, that swagger ..and that is what make viv special
No batsman has ever destroyed bowling attacks with such ease, grace and power. His wasn't nicknamed King Viv for nothing. The greatest batsman I've ever seen, bar none.
@TomAraya23 Tom, you are a 1st class toolbox. Shahid could only dream of hitting sixes in the same fashion as Viv, no helmet, in TEST CRICKET, against the best bowlers, for 17 years he was feared. Stick your Afridi up your ass dude. How could you be an Afridi supporter?????
@robelinda No TV in my home all of my childhood :) I used to go to my friends' house only when India played :-) BTW this man is super destructive unlike Sehwag [flat track master] :-)
Another great upload thanks,Rob it's a big ask but would you do a 6's comp on Chris Cairns....he broke Viv's test 6's record in about 1/2 the tests that Viv played,in no way a better player but fantastic to watch
@brettous its not about breaking record, its about the way he hit the sixes. the aggression, the presence the would send chill through the finest bowlers spine. and then look at the kind of bowlers he faced. lilly, rodny hogg, pasco, bob willis, jeff thompson, botham all were best and aggressive bowlers. he not only hit them, he actually intimidated them, and no fast bowler then and today like to be intimidated by any batsman
Just Imagine Viv Playing with the kind of bats players use these days where even a mishit t times goes for a six and the ball travels a long way , he would have thrown the ball out of the park many a times....
I waited for a long time for someone like Viv to come along again.. Gilly did, and looking back now it is fascinating to compare the two. I think Viv was a little more violent; lower trajectory and hit it harder, but as for timing, I cannot separate the two.
@mrbollocks1979 after gilchrist scored his hundred on 59 balls he said no one deserves to take away viv's mantle for being the most destructive batsman ever.
just look at the non chalant smile of viv after he hits the balls for six....amazingly clean hitting...better than gilly, i must say...although i am a big fan of gilly too.
This video is such a GOLD that I watch it again and again.Awesome brutality blended with an arrogance and a SWAGGER that is just so VIV.....A true Champ!!!
@12:17: That,according to me,is the best shot in this vid.Just supreme...MAGNIFICIENT!!!
This video is such a GOLD that I watch it again and again.Awesome brutality blended with an arrogance and a SWAGGER that is just so VIV.....A true Champ!!!
@12:17: That,according to me,is the best shot in this vid.Just supreme...MAGNIFICIENT!!!
One of the most intimidating batsmen of all time.
registrationannoys 7 hours ago
all i can say about sir viv is happy days
frostyfoord 1 week ago
viv richards never needed to wear a helmet... its the CROWD that needs to wear the helmets lol
johnnyrockerfella 3 weeks ago 2
Thanks for uploading these videos for younger-generation kids like me. I was born in the 90's and so I watched cricket in the 2000's. What a player Viv was!
Quarker99 1 month ago
mili12367 Better to be considered a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
anthonyaduhene 1 month ago
I always felt sorry for any team facing the West Indies batting line-up in the mid 80s. They had to work like the devil to get Desmond Haynes or Gordon greenidge out - only to have Viv Richards come in! Oh, and then the other team would have to face Marshall, Garner, Holding and Baptiste plus Roger Harper's spin. It wasn't fair was it?!
66PHILB 1 month ago
hmmm,he was the most favorite batsman of Imran khan at that time..
TheLovelypakistan 1 month ago
I never ever wore a box cos there was nothing to hold it in place i dont know how anyone wears them cos they dont have straps to hold them in place everytime i tried it just rolled down my trouser leg so i just gave up and always batted without one
DAJAZDJ1 1 month ago
Viv had balls and did not need a helmet. He was scared of no one unlike the english who couldn't cope with either the Aussies or the West Indies.
serpico56 2 months ago
thanks for putting all these videos up here...I grew up during this period - the 70s and 80s and the Master Blaster is still the best IMO! Also alot of todays' and recent periods batsman never faced the might of the Windies in their glory days- i'm sure they'd have much worse averages if they'd have faced Garner, Holding, Marshall etc....
dwellceller 2 months ago
richards was a great batsman,, but Waqar, Wasim, Hadlee,Imran, Lillee, Thomson, Botham, Willis were also great bowlers..
mrforexRSI 2 months ago
oh viv facing fast bowlers without helmet..
g4nj4b4by 2 months ago
Sir Viv Richard's records should be cut to quarter since he never faced to attack like Marshal, Holding, Garner, Roberts, Gomes, Walsh, Ambrose.
mili12367 2 months ago
@mili12367 Yeah he faced such shit bowlers like Waqar, Wasim, Hadlee, Imran, Lillee, Thomson, Botham, Willis.
You'll have to explain to me why Gomes is in your list, he was pretty shit and hardly ever bowled......FAIL......
robelinda 2 months ago 29
@robelinda You're right of course Rob,but I'd rather have been on the same team as the WI quickies than facing them. Viv was the best.
suffern63 2 months ago
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@robelinda richards was a great batsman,, but Waqar, Wasim, Hadlee,Imran, Lillee, Thomson, Botham, Willis were also great bowlers..
mrforexRSI 2 months ago
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@robelinda Dear Frnd, just kidding.
I do love WI (old) team. I have great respect for gutsy Sir Viv. I love his game, but I have much much much respect n love for Malcom Marshal, Michel Holding, Joel Garner & Courtney Walsh. My four best after Wasim Akram. I always enjoyed these bowlers' thinking.
Sorry for inclusion of Gomes in the pack.
Thanks for uploading.
mili12367 1 month ago
@robelinda you forgot Kapil Dev
anandaroop27 1 day ago
@anandaroop27 dammit, I was gonna say that.
bulltiger18 1 day ago
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saranyan1 2 weeks ago
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@mili12367 You would not say that if you had seen how they practice. Even out of match season they would practice almost every week where Holding and Marshall would be bowling to Richards in a very difficult turf. Facing Marshal and Holding on international pitches is relatively easy compared to those practice sessions.
saranyan1 2 weeks ago
@mili12367 he surely hammered them in the nets
darkestrituals 1 day ago
Viv Richards dee greatest of all timee!!!!
alechowargir 2 months ago
lol tony cozier pretty sure you cant hook the ball down to long on
bradleyblackster 2 months ago
Gee he liked Greg Mathews bowling lol
gcalley1 2 months ago
Brilliant work man...sensational...those were the days!
ozwizard98 2 months ago
At exactly 15:07 ....man what a team !!
SPOOKSTR 2 months ago
If Viv is the King of sixes, id say Gilchrist is the Prince.
DyingSID666 2 months ago
@DyingSID666 shahid afridi is the king of sixes he has most sixes in history the game
fat1880 2 months ago
@fat1880 In ODI's, Afridi is the king of sixes., Gilchrist has the most sixes in tests, and Viv has the fastest century. Hitting Sixes in Tests is pretty much going against the object of the game yet King Viv and Gilly hit so many and maintained averages of around fifty, far ahead of Afridi.
DyingSID666 2 months ago
@7:23 danger to life and limb... lol
arvindan1983 2 months ago
@robelinda man look at the quality...respect \m/
shreekoo 2 months ago
rob ur de betta dan keezmovies to cricket fans.....u jus hav the best of the best vid dawg.thnx
bonesmanjb 2 months ago 2
@bonesmanjb Thanks man!!!
robelinda 2 months ago
@robelinda Hey - by any chance do you have any footage of Alan Knott's keeping? I've heard it's legendary, but I have no idea where I can view it.
fruho1 2 months ago
greatest batsman ever by some distance!! Viv was really the king!!
opbdams 3 months ago
That was a Vivian era..His wicket was a big challage for bowlers..difficult to get him out cheaply...True legend
bodatrinadh 3 months ago
the spectators were always in danger of getting hit by Viv's shot ..
eshafitler 3 months ago
all time great my iadeal batsam no 1 be like him
19lost 3 months ago
This guy was so cool he did not require a helmet he use to see the ball like a beach ball the greatest cricketer of all time
Mega80sRocker 3 months ago
Oh man! he surely had a presence which could intimidate any bowler in his playing era. In my book, he is the sultan of cricket
sriniwaschowdhary437 3 months ago
one of the best player in the cricket history
shafeeq0345 3 months ago
A great hitter of the cricketing ball..........
nazirafridi741 3 months ago
Rob, u got anything from the 1975 series down under?? I had not seen much of this great Windies team untill i watched Fire in Babylon.. thanks 4 all the uploads man..Viv is really special..must hav been amazing seeing him bat live...
picodef1 4 months ago
why didn't he ever have a helmet on
DAJAZDJ1 4 months ago
@DAJAZDJ1 Didnt need one. He was too good. Not every batsman wore helmets once they were introduced in 1977.If you had grown up smashing fast bowlers for 20 years with no helmet and never been hit on the head and were the greatest batsman in the world why change....
robelinda 4 months ago 22
@robelinda thanks rob for this i am from india i watched cricket for last 20 years i listen lot about vivan by watching these highlights i think why bowlers feared by his force even imran khan speak very high of vivan richards is undoubtedly the best player in history of cricket
in 90s when aussie born rupert murdoch stared channel like fox and star for live cricket cricket become commericalized player have lot of money in 90s match fixing came ..do u thing there was match fixing in those days
tarun52139 3 months ago
@robelinda: What was more amusing was that big wide grin of Viv, whenever a batsman hit a six of a ball/delivery by Viv.
znkp 2 months ago
@robelinda Very true, but I don't think we can hold it against the best batsmen today. A champion batsman in an era would have been champion in any era. And it does not make any sense to compare people across eras
anoop3301 1 month ago
@DAJAZDJ1 also some batsman didn't wear helmets because the pull shot was their favorite shot, so the bowlers would bowl shorter at them (aiming for the head) and being able to execute the shot more often.
xxNiceRedBarxx 4 months ago
@DAJAZDJ1 He's the Baws
ankitgandhi888 2 months ago
@DAJAZDJ1 because he wanted to do so...he wanted to be different from others...a mad man.
psvyas 2 months ago
@DAJAZDJ1 he never wore a box either - so he was obviously never hit in the nuts
horimaoriguy 1 month ago
@horimaoriguy Well that's what i have in common with him then i never wore an helmet or box.im the same age and from the same town as Ryan Sidebotham i played against him at under 13s we was both captains and even at that age he was mighty quick and i never wore a box or helmet facing him. In fact i accidently hit him for six he bowled that quick i never really saw it and got a top edge for 6 he clean bowled me the next ball as i was about to play a shot the stumps were already doing cartwheels
DAJAZDJ1 1 month ago
@DAJAZDJ1 He was so confident of his technique!
anandaroop27 1 day ago
Can sachin Tendulkar hit tht kinda sixes?? lol cmon..Sachin is a great batsman,but these richardS and bradmanS are sachin,s father ....BAAP BAAP he hota ha ;)
ahsansheikh50 4 months ago
@ahsansheikh50 Sachin can hit even better sixers...do you want links ?
vimalans 4 months ago
@ahsansheikh50 watch sensational sachin 1992 world cup, watch sensational sachin 1996 world cup. distance always makes things seem more profound.
tony56743 4 months ago
Rob, I sometimes wonder what Viv could have done with some of these newer cricket bats with their obscenely bloated blades. The bats around his time were more conservative in design and featured thinner profiles. Also, the boundaries now are so ridiculously small, that a top-edge or a bunt over point or third-man goes for a six. Viv could have made a killing. Thanks for the great compilation. Keep them coming.
TheSenorPepper 4 months ago 2
wow the hooking.best hooker ever.
tony56743 4 months ago
@tony56743 best hooker ever probaly one of them wayne rooney had
DAJAZDJ1 4 months ago
shot at 00:30 one of the best pull/hook i have seen
tony56743 4 months ago
its not about sixes, its about attitude. the way he carried himself, his presence, that sent shiver down the finest bowler of his era. we might have better batsman today but no batsman today have that attitude, that swagger ..and that is what make viv special
gauran3e 4 months ago
richards was a powerful hitter of the ball. he was lucky to have world's best bowlers in his own team.
bsv1425 4 months ago
bowling with the cap on.... yuck
howisdatone 5 months ago
No batsman has ever destroyed bowling attacks with such ease, grace and power. His wasn't nicknamed King Viv for nothing. The greatest batsman I've ever seen, bar none.
whouster 6 months ago
who is the commentator at 00:01?
sateeshkumar16 6 months ago
@sateeshkumar16 Serious??? Bill Lawry man, you never watched much cricket???
robelinda 6 months ago 6
@robelinda King of sixes is shahid afridi with 279 sixes, just checked his stats on cricinfo, viv is only 125
TomAraya23 6 months ago 3
@TomAraya23 Tom, you are a 1st class toolbox. Shahid could only dream of hitting sixes in the same fashion as Viv, no helmet, in TEST CRICKET, against the best bowlers, for 17 years he was feared. Stick your Afridi up your ass dude. How could you be an Afridi supporter?????
robelinda 6 months ago 9
@robelinda LOL im not, just tot i needed to piss u off and clearly i did, my work is done here (_O_)
TomAraya23 6 months ago 3
@TomAraya23 BASTARD! Enjoy your honeymoon man.
robelinda 6 months ago
@robelinda No TV in my home all of my childhood :) I used to go to my friends' house only when India played :-) BTW this man is super destructive unlike Sehwag [flat track master] :-)
sateeshkumar16 6 months ago
brutal...just brutal
gauran3e 6 months ago
Look how much time he seems to have for the second stroke, a master :-)
ifihaf2 6 months ago
Another great upload thanks,Rob it's a big ask but would you do a 6's comp on Chris Cairns....he broke Viv's test 6's record in about 1/2 the tests that Viv played,in no way a better player but fantastic to watch
brettous 6 months ago
@brettous its not about breaking record, its about the way he hit the sixes. the aggression, the presence the would send chill through the finest bowlers spine. and then look at the kind of bowlers he faced. lilly, rodny hogg, pasco, bob willis, jeff thompson, botham all were best and aggressive bowlers. he not only hit them, he actually intimidated them, and no fast bowler then and today like to be intimidated by any batsman
gauran3e 6 months ago
Arguably the greatest batsman ever, and perhaps the most destructive of them all.
gsm299 6 months ago 2
Just Imagine Viv Playing with the kind of bats players use these days where even a mishit t times goes for a six and the ball travels a long way , he would have thrown the ball out of the park many a times....
1975siralex 6 months ago
@1975siralex It's terrifying to think how hard Viv at his peak would have hit the ball with modern bats.
HeartfeltDawn 6 months ago
I waited for a long time for someone like Viv to come along again.. Gilly did, and looking back now it is fascinating to compare the two. I think Viv was a little more violent; lower trajectory and hit it harder, but as for timing, I cannot separate the two.
mrbollocks1979 6 months ago
@mrbollocks1979 after gilchrist scored his hundred on 59 balls he said no one deserves to take away viv's mantle for being the most destructive batsman ever.
vladtepes97 6 months ago
Damn!!! no helmets !! nothing!! phew!!!
Dumindika 6 months ago
just look at the non chalant smile of viv after he hits the balls for six....amazingly clean hitting...better than gilly, i must say...although i am a big fan of gilly too.
timus6778 6 months ago
I don't think there's been a cleaner, more brutal hitter of the ball. Maybe Gilchrist?
mkeysou812 7 months ago
Oh wow..The shot over extra cover at 0:16 !!!
yennavai646 7 months ago
He liked Greg Matthews, didn't he?!
SettingSun77 8 months ago
This video is such a GOLD that I watch it again and again.Awesome brutality blended with an arrogance and a SWAGGER that is just so VIV.....A true Champ!!!
@12:17: That,according to me,is the best shot in this vid.Just supreme...MAGNIFICIENT!!!
cricmahanty 9 months ago
This video is such a GOLD that I watch it again and again.Awesome brutality blended with an arrogance and a SWAGGER that is just so VIV.....A true Champ!!!
@12:17: That,according to me,is the best shot in this vid.Just supreme...MAGNIFICIENT!!!
cricmahanty 9 months ago
Unmatched brilliance!
rk1271 9 months ago
Slap! 6!
Binkycool 9 months ago
Greatest Batsman Ever
kabooterjajaja 9 months ago 18
@kabooterjajaja
obviously
dilkashh 5 months ago