Roger Alton Roger Alton

Roger Alton: The day Viv Richards came to watch me play cricket

An encounter with a legend in Antigua

Viv Richards in Antigua, 1986 (Photo: Adrian Murrell/Getty) 
issue 11 January 2014

Sir Vivian Richards came to watch me play cricket the other day. That’s the sort of sentence you wait a lifetime to write. What’s more it’s true. Sort of. I haven’t been able to say anything like that for ten years, just  a few days before the Rugby World Cup final in Sydney in November 2003.

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