CRICKETER

Viv Richards

1952 - Today

Photo of Viv Richards

Icon of person Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (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 batsmen of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viv Richards has received more than 7,663,735 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Viv Richards is the 10th most popular cricketer (up from 11th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Antigua and Barbuda and the most popular Antiguan, Barbudan Cricketer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Viv Richards ranks 10 out of 136. Before her are Kapil Dev, W. G. Grace, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Bishan Singh Bedi, and Willie Watson. After her are Shane Warne, Ravindra Jadeja, Muttiah Muralitharan, Garfield Sobers, Rahul Dravid, and Sourav Ganguly.

Most Popular Cricketers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Viv Richards ranks 708. Before her are Kim Warwick, Jörgen Augustsson, Stephen South, Marco Aurélio, Don Was, and Tatyana Goyshchik. After her are Michael Brook, Takako Shirai, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Kage Baker, Veronika Schmidt, and Anastase Murekezi.

Others Born in 1952

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Antigua and Barbuda

Among people born in Antigua and Barbuda, Viv Richards ranks 8 out of 11. Before her are Rodney Williams (1947), Jamaica Kincaid (1949), Baldwin Spencer (1948), Gaston Browne (1967), James Carlisle (1937), and Vere Bird (1910). After her are Daniel Bailey (1986), James Beckford (1975), Brendan Christian (1983), Charles Fernandez (1954), and Cejhae Greene (1995).

Others born in Antigua and Barbuda

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CRICKETERS In Antigua and Barbuda

Among cricketers born in Antigua and Barbuda, Viv Richards ranks 1. 

Antiguan, Barbudan born Cricketers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous