On this day, 20 years ago, Viv Richards blazed to the fastest hundred in Test cricket, ripping a century of 56 balls against England. John Embury, one of the bowlers who suffered the onslaught, recalls the day.
Here is the "Scoring sequence: 3,6,1,2,6,1,4,1,2,1,1,1,4,1,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,6 [53 in 35 balls],2,4,4,4,1,1,2,6,6,4,6,1,2,2,1,4 [103 in 56 balls],6,1."
This was the day when the West Indies Captain was probably at his fiery best and certainly in no mood to let up on an English side who were shell-shocked to find Viv Richards smash the fastest-ever in Tests in terms of balls faced (56), beating Jack Gregory's 67-ball record against South Africa in 1921-22. His second fifty came in just 21 balls. When Viv declared the West Indies innings at 246 for 2, he had scored 110 of the 146 runs that had been made during his stay at the wicket.
This was the golden era of the West Indies cricket.
As a cricket fan, you live and breathe to watch and enjoy such masterful strokes from a cricketing genius.
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