Vivian Richards is an icon for every cricket lover. The book Sir Vivian,is an autobiography by Vivian Richards. Sir Vivian is well narrated and colorfully insighted. It provides an excellent account of Sir Vivian's cricketing career for the West-Indies and England county cricket. Sir Vivian accounts that how knowledgeable he is about the game, by raising a number key issues that affect modern cricket and is not afraid to be open-minded about his views.

The most interesting aspects of this book,Sir Vivian is about the bonding of Vivian Richards with Ian Botham,his controversial career in Somorset, his playing days in the great West-Indies squad in the 1980's and his retirement from first class cricket. These aspects have been interestingly put into words.Vivian Richards, was quite simply the greatest batsman that ever lived. However, this book quite matches his achievements as a cricketer. Sir Vivian is much better than most sports biographies and has lot to say About Cricket.

Sir Vivian discusses about his early life in the Carribean, then moves on to talk about his test match encounters particularly with England and Australia. Other subjects covered includes sledging, his time with Glamorgan, the approaches made to him to tour south Africa in the early 80s and the somewhat acrimonious end to his test career. He talked a bit about his eye problems that plagued him during the middle of his career. The cure make interesting reading as does his very frank and honest views on drugs.

Vivian Richards narrates his story without fear or favor for the first time in this book which happens to The Best of Cricket Books. From his early years in Antigua and as a teenager in the West Country, the story continues with the humiliation of West Indies at the hands of pace bowlers Jeff Thompson and Dennis Lillee. The books has accounted that how He took over the captaincy from Clive Lloyd in 1985 and under his leadership West Indies became the most feared team in the world, the irresistible force of the international game.


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