Alan Richards (cricketer)

Alan Richards

MBE
Personal information
Full name
Geoffrey Alan Richards
Born(1922-05-09)9 May 1922
Auckland, New Zealand
Died27 December 2013(2013-12-27) (aged 91)
Auckland, New Zealand
Source: Cricinfo, 8 March 2016

Geoffrey Alan Richards MBE (9 May 1922 – 27 December 2013) was a New Zealand cricketer and sports commentator.[1]

Alan Richards played five first-class matches for Auckland in 1955–56, captaining the team in all of them, including the match against the touring West Indians, when he scored 53 and 30 not out.[2] At the end of the season he began his radio career by describing New Zealand's first Test victory, at Eden Park in Auckland against West Indies.[3] He became one of New Zealand's best-known radio sports commentators, covering four New Zealand cricket tours of England between 1973 and 1986, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to sport, in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours.[4][3][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Alan Richards". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Auckland v West Indians 1955-56". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b Wisden 2014, p. 219.
  4. ^ "NZ commentator Alan Richards dies, aged 91". stuff.co.nz. 28 December 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  5. ^ London Gazette, 11 June 1988, p. B34.
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