Greatest cricket player of West Indies cricket team: Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
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Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, more popularly known as Viv is quite a recognized figure in the list of former West Indies cricketers. His fearless demeanor and determined performance earned him a lot of fame. At the same time, he enjoyed the intimidating aura he possessed against bowlers from the opposition team! Richards’s skill of taking good-length balls through midwickets from outside off-stumps is still known to be his trademark.
Born on 7th March, 1952, Richards was nominated amongst one of the top Cricketers of the Century back in 2000 and in 2002, he was also elected as one of the best ODI batsman alongside the honor of being the third greatest Test batsman of all time.
It was in 1974 in a Test match when Richards market his debit by giving in a challenging score followed with a victorious 192 in the second test match of the same series. He scored 8,540 runs in a total of 121 Test innings averaging 50.23 and included 24 centuries. During the World Series Cricket held during 1977-79, he also scored an impressive 5 centuries. Having made a score from only 56 balls during the 1986 tour against England, Richards won the title of ‘Scorer of the Fastest-Ever Test Century’. His achievement in the Cricket World Cup of 1975 was quite a memorable experience which followed with any superb feat in the following World Cup of 1979 wherein Richards made a century in the final.
Throughout his career, 1976 turned out to be the finest year as he was able to score 1,719 runs at an average of 90! Additionally, he made 7 centuries during the 11 Tests he was a part of. Richards savored the honor of captaining the West Indian team from 1984 to 1991, leading in 50 Test innings. He was the only West Indian captain who never lost any Test series. He played his entire career without any helmet on and was always ready to strike back!
Today, we affiliate hiss name with the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium: a cricket stadium in North Sound and has been named after him.
Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Richard Benjamin Richardson
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Richardson is a renowned name in the list of former West Indian cricketers. He also served his team as a captain during his tenure as a player. He stepped into the field of cricketer in 1982 as an opener with the Leewards Island. Following his season season, he went aboard the West Indian team to tour India during the season of 1983-84. He initiated batting in the middle-order and it didn’t take him long to emerge as an ostentatious batsman alongside being an outstanding fast bowler.
Soon after the retirement of Viv Richards from Test match, Richardson, better known as Richie was capped with the captaincy of the team. The team went out in the playing field 24 times under his captaincy out of which 11 matches were won. Richie captained for a good 4 years during which the team lost only one series that was played in 1995 against Australia.
Up till 1995, Richie played 86 Test matches and hit a score of 5,949 runs including 16 centuries. This superb West Indian player exhibited a strong profile against Australia, hitting a superb 9 centuries while the highest score was acquired in 1989 against India. Richardson played a total of 224 ODIs inclusive of 3 World Cups. The last international he played was the semi final for the World Cup of 1996 against Australia after which he resigned from the role of captainship.
Post-retirement from International cricket, Richie became the first ever high profile signing by the English All-Star Club Cricket Team: Lashings World XI and is also the present captain of the team.
Greatest West Indian cricket player: Courtney Andrew Walsh
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Andrew Walsh is a former fast bowler of the West Indian cricket team who played at International level from 1984-2001 while he performed as a captain for the team in a total of 22 Test matches. Today, Walsh is most recognized for his brilliant opening bowling alliance with Curtly Ambrose. Not just this, he is also popular for making the record of maximum number of Test wickets from 2000.
Walsh made his first step into the world of fame in 1979 when he bagged 10 wickets in an innings performed in school cricket while it was only three years later that he made his first-class playing debut. In his Test debut against Australia in 1984, Walsh took 2 wickets for 43 runs. Later in the same season, he made his debut for ODI against Sri Lanka while in 2000, he played his last ODI against New Zealand cricket team. Walsh was bequeathed with the honor of being one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1987. Having been appointed as a captain for the West Indian cricket team for the tours of New Zealand and India in 1994, he bagged 62 Test wickets at an average of 21.75 runs per wicket in 1995. This feat was better enhanced in 2000 when the then performed at an average of 18.69 while securing 66 Test wickets. This included 34 wickets in the Test series that Walsh played against the English team at an average of 12.82 runs per wickets.
Today, Courtney Andrew Walsh is a regular feature of the Lashing World XI and owns a restaurant by the name of Cuddyz in Jamaica.
Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket player: Clive Hubert Lloyd
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Clive Hubert Lloyd is a former cricket player of the West Indian cricket team which he captained from 1974-1985. Lloyd was quite a dominant and most successful Test captains and won over 27 matches without facing any trounce during the reign of his captaincy inclusive of 11 wins in a row. Lloyd was in fact the 1st ever West Indian player to have earned 100 International Caps.
As an energetic middle-order batsman with a frequent medium-pace bowling style, Lloyd made his first-class debut in 1963-64 which was followed by the Lancashire League in 1967 wherein he played for Haslingden. He also made a debut for Warwickshire in 1968 and won his cap in the next season. Having made his Test debut in 1966 against India, hitting 82 and 78 not out as his feat then included a score of 102 runs to win the match. In 1971, he won the title of Wisden Cricketer of the Year owing to his superb performance over the past twelve months including the time when he hit 1600 runs at 47 for Lancashire.
Lloyd’s first tour as a captain during 1974-75 instigated a lot of improvement in his playing. He made 163 with only 85 balls in Bangalore in the first Test which was then followed by a 242 test-best in the 5th Test innings played in Mumbai. Due to the Packer crisis, Lloyd resigned from the cricket arena yet returned for the 1979 World Cup to lead the team. This was when he made a highly consistent scale of scored with nine successive matches in a low wherein the lowest score was 49. He averaged 76 in the series played against the English cricket team, and made an exceptional 172.50 in domestic cricket.
Having worked as a civil servant for the Guyana Health Ministry, Lloyd has always retained his involvement with cricket by coaching and commentating. In 2008, he was also appointed as the Chairman of ICC Cricket Committee.
Famous cricket players of New Zealand cricket team: Ken Rutherford
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Ken Rutherford is recognized as a former cricketer of the New Zealand team who relished a long and fruitful 10 years span of playing with the national team alongside the position of a captain for three years. Even though he had a not-so-promising start to his career, he struggled hard to trigger his International Career and acquired the position of a regular player in the team.
Rutherford did not have a very steady and remarkable playing career. Even though he clearly had the potential to perform superbly that is evident from the 34 first-class centuries he achieved, his performances were not very hopeful specifically owing to his captaincy tenure that gave his team only two Test wins against 18 attempts. He achieved his premier first-class score i.e 317 in 1986 when he was on the NZ touring side. This included 8 sixes and 45 boundary fours which crossed the boundary rope for a record of 53 times. It was in a One Day International when Rutherford won 10 matches as a Captain and accomplished his career’s highest International score.
In 1995, Rutherford was dropped from the New Zealand cricket team, after which he moved to South Africa and played first-class cricket over a period of five seasons for Transvaal and Gauteng. Post retirement, he was appointed to coach the National Cricket team of Ireland.