20 Men who Revolutionarised the Game of Cricket

3. Sir Vivian Richards’ destructive ploys:

Cricket was considered as somewhat a defensive sport until the introduction of Sir Vivian Richards into the game. He was the first batsman to serve a platter of hard-hitting to the audiences. Also, he became the fastest player to reach to 5000 ODI runs in a matter of just 120 innings. In such days of cricket, when a score of 200 in a team’s innings was considered winning, Viv Richards smacked an unbeaten knock of 189 runs in an ODI innings. Surely, he was a revolutionary batsman to say the least.