Sir Viv Richards voted county cricket greatest overseas player sees Sir Viv Richards has been casted a ballot as English region cricket's most noteworthy abroad player by BBC Sport clients.

He took 43.2% of the last vote, completing in front of another previous West Indies chief, Sir Clive Lloyd (9.2%), and ex-New Zealand all-rounder Sir Richard Hadlee (8.5%).

Richards, presently 68, spoke to Somerset and Glamorgan in the English household game and was named as the best abroad player at the two areas when BBC Sport ran votes in favor of every individual region side in May.

The 17 area champs at that point experienced to the general vote. The full outcome, alongside more data pretty much the entirety of the contenders.

Sir Viv Richards voted county cricket greatest overseas player

Allan Donald

The South Africa quick bowler nicknamed "White Lightning" went through 13 years related with Warwickshire, taking 536 first-class wickets in quite a while.

That figure remembered 88 for the 1995 County Championship title resistance. The Bears had a choice to re-sign Brian Lara that mid year, on the rear of his record-breaking, treble-winning year in 1994, however the Warwickshire advisory group stayed with Donald, who had been speaking to his nation on a voyage through England the past season.

Donald additionally guaranteed 245 one-day scalps for the Bears, helping them win the NatWest Trophy in 1989 and the 1997 Sunday League.

Donald was the victor of Warwickshire's vote with 42%, in front of West Indies batsmen Lara, Alvin Kallicharran and Rohan Kanhai.

Brian Davison

Batsman Davison was the victor of the Leicestershire survey with 56% of the vote, in front of West Indies opener Phil Simmons, paceman Winston Benjamin and South African batsman Hylton Ackerman.

Bulawayo-conceived Davison made 18,537 runs in 303 first-class games in quite a while with Leicestershire somewhere in the range of 1970 and 1983, hitting 37 tons. He likewise scored 6,744 runs in 276 one-day games.

Davison came back to England to play for Gloucestershire in 1985, preceding closure his vocation with Tasmania in the remainder of a few winters playing Sheffield Shield cricket.

He played for his local Rhodesia before they accomplished Test status as Zimbabwe.

Sir Clive Lloyd

Lloyd won the Lancashire vote with 66% from Pakistan all-rounder Wasim Akram, five-times pre-war Championship victor Ted McDonald and Indian wicketkeeping legend Farokh Engineer.

He filled in as a player from 1968 to 1986, preceding playing an Old Trafford board job somewhere in the range of 1993 and 2012.

The left-gave batsman played 219 top notch games for Lancashire, hitting 30 centuries in a take of 12,764 runs, spread around a sparkling West Indies profession, which included captaining his nation to triumphs in the initial two World Cups.

He was a sequential one-day trophy victor in his 273 games; the initial two one-day group titles (1969 and 1970), trailed by four Gillette Cups somewhere in the range of 1970 and 1975.

He was twice man of the match in finals, on account of a noteworthy 126 against Warwickshire in 1972 and again in 1975 against Middlesex.

Sir Curtly Ambrose

The Northamptonshire vote was one of the more uniformly challenged, however Ambrose ended up as the winner with 47% in front of Pakistan all-rounder Mushtaq Mohammad, paceman Sarfraz Nawaz and Indian spinner Bishan Bedi.

Somewhere in the range of 1989 and 1996, the West Indies Test quick bowler took 318 wickets in 78 top of the line matches and 115 wickets in 95 one-day appearances for Northants, featured by two scalps in Northants' NatWest Trophy last win over Leicestershire at Lord's in 1992.

He additionally asserted 405 Test wickets, leaving him fifteenth on Test cricket's untouched rundown.

Darren Lehmann

Yorkshire's notorious old principle that a player must be conceived inside the province's fringes was deserted in 1992 when they enrolled a young Sachin Tendulkar.

The future India hotshot progressed admirably, making 1,070 County Championship runs and a further 540 out of one-day cricket, yet he, Kane Williamson and Jacques Rudolph were totally overshadowed by Darren Lehmann with 69% of the Yorkshire vote.

Lehmann made 8,871 runs in 88 first-class coordinates for Yorkshire in quite a while at Headingley somewhere in the range of 1997 and 2006, all at the gigantic normal of 68.76, while additionally making 5,481 runs in 139 restricted overs matches.

Topped multiple times at Test level by Australia, he proceeded to turn into his nation's lead trainer. He was freed from any bad behavior by Cricket Australia during the ball-altering outrage in South Africa in 2018, yet decided to leave toward the finish of that arrangement.

David Boon

In a tight Durham vote, in view of their initial 28 seasons as an English five star district, the stocky Australian batsman asserted 33% of the survey to simply defeat South African Dale Benkenstein and two additional Australians, Michael Di Venuto and Callum Thorp.

Shelter helped shape Durham into a serious power following seven years of scratching around at the base of the County Championship table and propelled them to Division One for the beginning of the new two-level group structure in 2000.

He scored 3,007 top of the line runs and another 1,465 of every one-day cricket.

Desmond Haynes

Gotten 52% of the Middlesex vote to win from previous West Indies partner Wayne Daniel, Australian opener Chris Rogers and South Africa quick bowler Vintcent van der Bijl.

Haynes made 7,071 runs, at a normal of 49.10, in 95 matches during his five seasons at Lord's somewhere in the range of 1989 and 1994, including 21 of his 51 profession hundreds of years.

He likewise made six additional tons in one-day cricket, scoring 4,105 runs for Middlesex in 96 matches, and aided Middlesex win three trophies; the County Championship in 1990 and 1993, or more the Sunday League in 1992.

Glenn Turner

The New Zealand opener guaranteed 73% of the Worcestershire vote, well away from Australian all-rounder Tom Moody, quick bowler Vanburn Holder and Turner's previous opening accomplice Ron Headley.

Turner made 72 of his 103 top notch a very long time for Worcestershire, the most elevated made by any abroad batsman in English district cricket.

Those tons were among his 22,298 runs at a normal of 52.09 in 284 top of the line games somewhere in the range of 1967 and 1982.

One of the select band to make 100 top of the line hundreds of years, Turner arrived at the milestone in his last season against Warwickshire at New Road, making 311 not out in the day and scoring in any event 100 runs in every meeting.

He despite everything holds the world record for the most noteworthy level of runs in an innings - 141 not out, out of 169 against Glamorgan at Swansea in 1977.

Imran Khan

Pakistan's World Cup-winning skipper of 1992 and future PM made 7,329 runs and took 409 wickets in 131 top notch games for Sussex somewhere in the range of 1977 and 1988.

He additionally made 4,298 runs and guaranteed 209 scalps in List A cricket, helping Sussex to two Lord's one-day last successes.

That was sufficient to make sure about him 63% of the Sussex vote in front of Pakistan leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed, Zimbabwe batsman Murray Goodwin and Australian paceman Steve Magoffin.

Having been taught at Worcester's Royal Grammar School, Imran started his vocation with his 'home' district, Worcestershire. He made 42 top of the line and 48 one-day appearances for them, yet most of his time in district cricket was with Sussex.

Ken McEwan

In an all around challenged Essex vote, McEwan completed top with 36%, in front of current commander Ryan ten Doeschate, Australian batsman Mark Waugh and West Indies all-rounder Keith Boyce.

The productive South African batsman looted 18,088 runs in 282 top of the line coordinates somewhere in the range of 1974 and 1985, including 52 of his 74 vocation hundreds of years.

He helped Essex win their initial three Championship titles in 1979, 1983 (when he was top scorer in the nation with 2,051 runs) and 1984.

McEwan was likewise a key piece of their initial five one-day trophy triumphs in that equivalent fruitful time, hitting 13 additional tons and 47 half-hundreds of years in 274 matches.

Kumar Sangakkara

The Sri Lanka legend was the champ of the Surrey vote with 40%, away from West Indies bowler Sylvester Clarke and Pakistan leg-spinners Saqlain Mushtaq and Intikhab Alam.

Sangakkara made 14 tons in only 33 matches in three seasons somewhere in the range of 2015 and 2017, totalling 3,400 top notch runs at a normal of 62.96 and 1,941 in constrained overs cricket.

Those figures are predominated by his run-production deeds for Sri Lanka; 12,400 out of 134 Tests, 13,975 out of 397 one-day internationals and 1,382 out of 56 T20 games.

Sangakkara had just positively shaped region cricket during brief periods with Warwickshire and Durham, yet his sheer nature of batsmanship and upbeat, grinning face left a wonderful impression at The Oval.

Malcolm Marshall

Pace bowler Marshall, twentieth on the record-breaking rundown of Test wicket-takers with 376, passed on in 1999 matured 41.

He took 826 top notch and 239 List A wickets in his 11 years with Hampshire spread somewhere in the range of 1979 and 1993, in the middle of four visits with the West Indies to England.

Marshall additionally said something with 5,847 top of the line runs, including five centuries and 26 fifties, and a further 2,073 of every one-day cricket.

That earned him 47% of the Hampshire vote, in front of tasteful South African batsman Barry Richards, Richards' long-standing Hampshire opening accomplice Sir Gordon Greenidge and the game's second most elevated Test wicket-taker, Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne.

Michael Holding

After a large portion of a season for Lancashire in 1981, the West Indies quick bowling legend moved to Derbyshire.

In six seasons somewhere in the range of 1983 and 1989, he took 224 first-class wickets in quite a while and furthermore guaranteed 154 one-day scalps, while terrifying any number of top-line batsmen en route.

The man they once called "Murmuring Death", a tribute to the near quietness of his effortless and smooth run-up, is as yet a famous figure in cricket as a correspondent.

Holding won the Derbyshire vote with 51% in front of New Zealand Test opener John Wright, South African all-rounder Eddie Barlow and South African batsman Peter Kirsten.

Mike Procter

All-rounder Procter made his Gloucestershire debut played just seven Tests on account of South Africa's politically-sanctioned racial segregation system, yet he turned into a star in district cricket with 14,441 runs and 833 wickets in 259 top of the line coordinates after his introduction in 1965.

In 223 one-day games, he made 5,631 runs and took 280 wickets, topped by his broadcast four wickets in five balls at Southampton in the 1977 B&H Cup semi-last against Hampshire, which set up the second of two trophies in the 'Proctershire' time.

He asserted 56% of the vote in front of West Indies' driving Test wicket-taker Courtney Walsh, Pakistan Test incredible Zaheer Abbas and Australian one-day trophy-winning motivation Ian Harvey.

Sir Richard Hadlee

New Zealand Test all-rounder Hadlee was casted a ballot the PCA Player of the Year in Nottinghamshire's trophy-winning periods of 1981 and 1987.

He spoke to Notts for 10 progressive seasons somewhere in the range of 1978 and 1987, taking 622 wickets and making 5,854 runs in 148 top notch games, close by 2,951 runs and 231 wickets in 160 List A games.

Alongside Kapil Dev, Imran Khan and Ian Botham, Hadlee was positioned as one of the four incredible all-rounders of his period.

Hadlee surveyed 43% in the Notts vote, in front of Sir Garfield Sobers, South African all-rounder Clive Rice and Australian David Hussey.

Sir Viv Richards

West Indies batting legend Richards was a runaway victor of the Somerset survey, taking 90% of the vote in front of his global colleague Joel Garner, Australian all-rounder Bill Alley and South African paceman Alfonso Thomas.

He initially joined Somerset in 1974 in indistinguishable bunch of fresh debuts from Ian Botham, Vic Marks and the late Peter Roebuck.

On his 8,540 Test runs for the West Indies, Richards hit 58 centuries in his 14,698 top of the line and 7,349 one-day runs for Somerset until 1986, when he and Garner were expelled as abroad signings, and Botham surrendered in fight, however not before the area had won five one-day trophies from 1979 to 1983.

He additionally had four seasons with Glamorgan at the last part of his profession, holding off on showing up until he had turned 38.

Be that as it may, his effect and helping the Welsh side success the 1993 Sunday League title were sufficient to win him that province's vote with 38%, in front of Glamorgan's County Championship-winning Pakistan batsman Majid Khan, Pakistan paceman Waqar Younis and Australian quick bowler Michael Kasprowicz.

Sir Viv Richards voted county cricket greatest overseas player


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