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King Viv rules up north

Scott Oliver looks back to 1987 when Sir Viv Richards, at the height of his powers, turned out for Rishton in the Lancashire League
Many’s the time in pre-Internet club cricket when you would turn up to a game without the proverbial Scooby Doo about the opposition’s pro: his name, what he looks like, his credentials. This probably wasn’t much of a problem for Lancashire League cricketers visiting Rishton CC in the summer of 1987, for the new pro at Blackburn Road had by that stage of his career amassed 6,472 Test runs at 52.61 with 20 hundreds, one of which was, at the time, the fastest in th...

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