Viv Richards
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Oct 13, 2026
Kieran MaguireHOST
Yeah.
Kieran MaguireHOST
No, my, my, my greatest ever autograph is Sir Vivian Richards.
Kevin DayHOST
Oh, that's a good one.
Kieran MaguireHOST
Uh, because he was, he was my hero when I was growing up.
Jarrod KimberHOST
And he was an absolute...
Jarrod KimberHOST
You know, and I think there's a story about him, like, um, rushing Viv Richards, and everyone just being like, "What the hell does Australia have here?" And then he really doesn't become a frontline player for another five or six years, and he still struggles with injuries, and I think his career even was ended by injuries.
Jarrod KimberHOST
So I'm a big...
Jarrod KimberHOST
So I've gone Ian Craig, Craig McDermott.
JohnAUDIENCE
But your fieldsmen are great fieldsmen.
JohnAUDIENCE
Uh, our type of Australia, Viv Richards and Rodney Harper and-
Adam WhiteHOST
Yep
JohnAUDIENCE
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Ian HealyHOST
Uh, and unfortunately, their team had to change before we could beat them.
Ian HealyHOST
No Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Desie Haynes.
Ian HealyHOST
Uh, Gus, D- Jeffrey Dujon, Malcolm Marshall, Patrick Patterson.
Ian HealyHOST
Um, it, the, the, all those players had to leave before we got to beat them in 1995.
Ian HealyHOST
Uh, and unfortunately, their team had to change before we could beat them.
Ian HealyHOST
No Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Desie Haynes, uh, Gus, D- Jeffrey Dujon, Malcolm Marshall, Patrick Patterson.
Ian HealyHOST
Um, it, the, the, all those players had to leave before we got to beat them in 1995.
Ian HealyHOST
Now, in '93 was our time, right? We, we, and we lost by one run.
Ian HealyHOST
We had to beat this Windies' mighty 11, uh, and unfortunately, their team had to change before we could beat them.
Ian HealyHOST
No Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Desie Haynes, uh, Gus, the, Jeffrey Dujon, Malcolm Marshall, Patrick Patterson.
Ian HealyHOST
Um, it, the, the, all those players had to leave before we got to beat them in 1995.
Ian HealyHOST
Now, in '93 was our time, right? We, we, and we lost by one run.
Machel St Patrick HewittHOST
I think that's what was going on.
Machel St Patrick HewittHOST
So anyways, I saw this interview with Viv, think it was on social media or something, about three and a half minutes long, and the reverence with which Viv spoke about Gary, Viv spoke as if he was some little boy in this thing who couldn't come anywhere close to Gary Sobers, and spoke about like when he was in his presence, just being like, "Boy, let me just shut my mouth and listen to, to, to, to what Uncle is saying here, because no one can't chat to Uncle," right? And that's Viv Richards, right? That's Viv Richards who to some people is seen as, some might say, some would argue that he's one of the greatest to, to ever come out of the Caribbean, much less, much less if you spoke about the world game, right? But can that be, and again, like I say, this is no slight on Gary.
Machel St Patrick HewittHOST
Gary is Gary, right? But can that be hard to live under...
Machel St Patrick HewittHOST
Maybe not for you and me.
Suresh RaoGUEST
And so there was an evolution there that was, "Right, we can have Black leadership with excellence.
Suresh RaoGUEST
We can have a Black player who is bar none the best player in the world.
Suresh RaoGUEST
That is something to aspire to." You know, and I imagine a young Viv Richards watching this thinking, "I could impose my own talent on the world as well.
Suresh RaoGUEST
I could express that freely." And so the, he, he was very much the forerunner.
Michael ClarkeHOST
...
Michael ClarkeHOST
I wanted to bat like Viv Richards-
Gerard MiddletonHOST
[laughs]
Michael ClarkeHOST
... or Brian Lara, or bowl spinners like Allan Border or DK Lillee.
Ayaaz MemonGUEST
Star value.
Ayaaz MemonGUEST
Or a Viv Richards.
Cyrus BroachaHOST
Ah, so Viv Richards, Rahul Dravid, that kind.
Ayaaz MemonGUEST
Before that, all the English players, you know, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey-
Cyrus BroachaHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Ayaaz MemonGUEST
...
Ayaaz MemonGUEST
there was Greg Chappell-
Cyrus BroachaHOST
Viv Richards
Syed Ali ImranGUEST
He drives one character.
Syed Ali ImranGUEST
Like this, Sir Vivian Richards.
Syed Ali ImranGUEST
Like this, Shoaib Akhtar.
Syed Ali ImranGUEST
Brian Larratt.
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