+- Cricket Windies (https://cricketwindies.com)
+-- Forum: Rally Around West Indies! (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-1.html)
+--- Forum: We don't like cricket. We love it. (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-2.html)
+--- Thread: Chris Gayle backed to bring Viv Richards effect (/thread-24811.html)
Chris Gayle backed to bring Viv Richards effect - chairman - 05-29-2015
Chris Gayle is preparing for his Somerset debut on Friday with Matthew Maynard hailing him as the county's new Viv Richards.
Gayle will follow in the footsteps of his fellow big-hitting West Indian when he features against Essex Eagles at Chelmsford in the NatWest T20 Blast South Group.
Richards represented Somerset between 1974 and 1986 and made 11 limited-overs centuries in addition to 47 in the first-class game.