Friday Fights, The Big ODI Fight – Sir Vivian Richards vs Javed Miandad

Haigh then added, “Richards merely made it look as though you weren’t good enough to bowl to him; Miandad said it to your face. He’d pick on Dilip Doshi, for instance, charging down the wicket then dead-batting him, hissing contemptuously: “I should have hit that for six!”

That was Miandad for you. And that was also the allure Richards held in an era of great West Indian cricketers who would go to any extent to bully you with a cricket bat or ball in hand. Because they knew their worth and cricket field sauntered to become a theatre with oomph being provided from every nook and cranny. Could you ever have enough of it?

For most of us born in the late 80s and early 90s, it was the histrionics from the old cricket videos that popped up but never so marginalised in the corner of the brain. So to bring the fresh perspective, we, at SportsCafe, are rumbling the two mavericks in a Boxing Ring. Let’s see who comes out on top. So without any further ado – Let’s get ready to rumble.