Viv Richards cricket records
Viv Richards of West Indies holds 19 cricket records known to us.
Viv Richards is a batsman of West Indies cricket team.
He has played 121 test matches and scored 8540 runs in 182 innings, with 24 centuries and 45 half-centuries, at batting average of 50.23 and his personal best of 291 runs.
His highest score in one-day cricket is 189*. His one-day career includes 11 hundreds and 45 half-centuries in his 6721 runs scored in 167 matches, at an average of 47 and strike rate of 90.2%.
He has played 121 test matches and taken 32 wickets in 103 innings at bowling average of 61.37, with economy of 2.27 and bowling strike rate of 161.5. His personal best in a Test match is 3 wickets for 51 runs. His best performance in an inning is 2 wickets for 17 runs. He has never taken 5+ wickets in Test cricket.
He took 6 wickets for 41 runs in his best ODI bowling. His bowling economy in one-day cricket is 4.49 in 131 matches. He has taken 118 wickets at strike rate of 47.8 and bowling average of 35.83, which includes 1 times 4 wicket haul and 2 times 5 wicket haul.