Autographs of Viv Richards
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards KNH KCN OBE OOC (born 7 March 1952) is a retired Antiguan cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Usually batting at number three in a dominant West Indies side, Richards is widely regarded as one of the greatest batters of all time. Richards was part of the squads that won the 1975 Cricket World Cup and 1979 Cricket World Cup and finished as runners-up in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Richards made his Test debut in 1974 against India along with Gordon Greenidge. His best years were between 1976 and 1983, during which time he averaged a remarkable 66.51 with the bat in Test cricket. In 1984 he suffered from pterygium and had eye surgery which affected his eyesight and reflexes. Despite this, he remained one of the best batters in the world for the remaining four years of his career, though his average in the second half of his career was significantly lower than for the first. Richards scored 8,540 runs in 121 Test matches at an average of 50.23 and retired as the West Indies' leading run-scorer, overhauling the aggregate of Garfield Sobers. He also scored 1,281 runs at an average of over 55 in World Series Cricket, which is sometimes regarded as the highest and most difficult level of cricket ever played. As a captain, he won 27 of 50 Test matches and lost only 8. He also scored nearly 7,000 runs in One Day Internationals and more than 36,000 in first-class cricket.
He was knighted for his contributions to cricket in 1999. In 2000 he was voted one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Century by a 100-member panel of experts, and in 2002 the almanack judged that he had played the best One Day International innings of all time. In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the greatest One Day International batsman who had played to that date and as the third-greatest Test cricket batter. In 2009, Richards was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
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Traded items with a signature of Viv Richards
The most expensive item with a signature of Viv Richards (Lara Tendulkar Gavaskar Viv Richards Lillee Signed Cricket Bat Framed X12) was sold in May 2025 for £1,026.83 while the cheapest item (Lashings V Eton Ramblers Signed Cricket Scorecard inc Sir Viv Richards) found a new owner for £0.99 in June 2020. The month with the most items sold (12) was November 2012 with an average selling price of £8.99 for an autographed item of Viv Richards. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2025 with £524.91 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.60 was August 2015. In average, an autographed item from Viv Richards is worth £14.57.
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Latest News about Viv Richards
Sir Viv Richards says dead pitches could kill the appeal of Test cricket around (12/07/2014): West Indies great Sir Viv Richards believes lifeless pitches around the world risk killing the appeal of Test cricket. 
1987: cricket legend Viv Richards becomes Rishton pro (06/06/2014): Why register?Viv Richards hails Lancashire's Buttler (06/03/2014): The Red Rose wicketkeeper is one of the best finishers in the world according to the West Indian great.
