Viv Richards Cricket Records — Tests, ODIs & T20Is
Top Records
2nd
Most runs in a calendar year
Most runs1710
2nd
Most hundreds in a calendar year
Hundreds7
3rd
Fifties in consecutive matches
Fifties11
Hundred and a duck in a match
Ducks and pairs3rd
Fastest to 5000 runs
Fastest career runs95
1st
Outstanding bowling analyses in an innings
Most wickets1/0
4th
Worst career strike rate
Averages, strike rates and economy161.5
5000 runs and 50 fielding dismissals
Batting and fielding6th
Most player-of-the-series awards
Players7
1st
Most runs in an innings (by batting position)
Most runs189*
1st
Highest percentage of runs in a completed innings
Long innings69.48
3rd
Fastest to 5000 runs
Fastest career runs114
2nd
Best figures in a innings by a captain
Most wickets6
6th
Oldest player to take five-wickets-in-an-innings
Hauls37y 230d
A fifty and five wickets in an innings
Batting and bowling1000 runs, 50 wickets and 50 catches
Batting, bowling and fielding5000 runs and 50 fielding dismissals
Batting and fielding1st
Highest partnership for the tenth wicket
Innings partnerships106*
1st
Fifties in consecutive matches
Fifties12
Players
32nd
Most matches in career
Players121
36th
Most consecutive matches for a team
Players61
29th
Most player-of-the-match awards
Players10
Captains
16th
Most matches as captain
Captains50
30th
Oldest captains
Captains39y 158d
Most runs
29th
Most runs in career
Most runs8540
38th
Most runs in an innings
Most runs291
12th
Most runs in a series
Most runs829
2nd
Most runs in a calendar year
Most runs1710
11th
Most runs in an innings (by batting position)
Most runs291
48th
Most runs in a day
Most runs200
Averages and strike rates
42nd
Highest career batting average
Averages and strike rates50.23
36th
Highest strike rate in an innings
Averages and strike rates189.65
Hundreds
26th
Most hundreds in a career
Hundreds24
28th
Most double hundreds in a career
Hundreds3
2nd
Most double hundreds in a series
Hundreds2
2nd
Most hundreds in a calendar year
Hundreds7
18th
Most hundreds against one team
Hundreds8
22nd
Hundreds in consecutive matches
Hundreds3
Fifties
18th
Most fifties in career
Fifties69
33rd
Fifties in consecutive innings
Fifties5
3rd
Fifties in consecutive matches
Fifties11
Ducks and pairs
Hundred and a duck in a match
Ducks and pairsBoundaries
13th
Most sixes in career
Boundaries84
32nd
Most fours in career
Boundaries952+
24th
Most sixes in an innings
Boundaries7
22nd
Most fours in an innings
Boundaries38
35th
Most runs from fours and sixes in an innings
Boundaries152
Fastest career runs
8th
Fastest to 2000 runs
Fastest career runs36
6th
Fastest to 3000 runs
Fastest career runs54
3rd
Fastest to 4000 runs
Fastest career runs71
3rd
Fastest to 5000 runs
Fastest career runs95
10th
Fastest to 6000 runs
Fastest career runs120
9th
Fastest to 7000 runs
Fastest career runs140
15th
Fastest to 8000 runs
Fastest career runs167
Most wickets
1st
Outstanding bowling analyses in an innings
Most wickets1/0
Averages, strike rates and economy
14th
Worst career bowling average
Averages, strike rates and economy61.37
4th
Worst career strike rate
Averages, strike rates and economy161.5
Most catches
20th
Most catches in career
Most catches122
Batting and fielding
5000 runs and 50 fielding dismissals
Batting and fieldingInnings partnerships
29th
Highest partnership for the third wicket
Innings partnerships303
50th
Highest partnership for the eighth wicket
Innings partnerships124
Top records are a selection of the records (from among those listed under the Test, ODI, T20I and Combined categories) in which the player is in the top ten. If the player has multiple entries in the top ten in any individual record list, one entry from that list is displayed, as selected by an algorithm, under Top records. In the categories outside of the Top records module, placements within the top 50 in any given record list are displayed. Medallion icon indicates milestone records.