The only time an #Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol. ~Barry Richards
The legendary batsman of the caliber of Sir Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, and Sir Vivian Richards was born #OnThisDay
#Happy_Birthday Barry Richards

A career cut short by apartheid. The very first thing which comes in mind when we talk about Barry is Tony Lewis’s comment on his 1974 Lord’s Cricket Ground innings.

‘It was as if Yehudi Menuhin had called into the Festival Hall of a morning, taken his fiddle on stage and reeled off faultless, unaccompanied Bach all day – just for the pleasure of the cleaners, box-office clerks, odd electricians or a carpenter who chanced to be there – without central heating, of course – without taking off his coat.’ ~Tony Lewis