Category profile
- Dominance
- 90
- Peak
- 93
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 90
- Statistics
- 90
Career timeline · Centuries per year
| Season | Centuries per year | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 55 | |
| 1976 | 90 | |
| 1977 | 61 | |
| 1978 | 58 | |
| 1979 | 52 | |
| 1980 | 49 | |
| 1981 | 62 | |
| 1982 | 51 | |
| 1983 | 47 | |
| 1984 | 55 | |
| 1985 | 44 | |
| 1986 | 48 | |
| 1987 | 42 | |
| 1988 | 40 |
Data sources
- ICC
- ESPNcricinfo
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Viv Richards ranks #9 in Cricket
Viv Richards ranks 9th among Cricket athletes on GOAT Rank and 116th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 90.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 90, Peak 93, Longevity 88, Honours 90, Statistics 90. Those categories are normalised against the full Cricket reference universe of 294 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1971–1993 with 14 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1976, which sets the Peak component at 93. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 93 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes test runs 8540, test centuries 24, world cups 2, test average 50.23.
Immediately ahead sits Donald Bradman on 93.6, a gap of 3.4 points. Directly behind is Virat Kohli on 90.8. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Viv Richards GOAT Score explained
- Dominance90/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Richards stood above the field while competing. Scored 90/100 against the full Cricket cohort.
- Peak93/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1976. Scored 93/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 22 years of competition and 14 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours90/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 90/100.
- Statistics90/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 90/100.
Top Richards comparisons
Viv Richards — frequently asked
- Is Viv Richards the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Viv Richards ranks 9th in Cricket with a GOAT Score of 90.2, behind Sachin Tendulkar on 94.4.
- What is Viv Richards's GOAT Score?
- 90.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 90 (25%), Peak 93 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 90 (20%), Statistics 90 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Viv Richards rank all time?
- 116th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 9th within Cricket.
- Viv Richards vs Donald Bradman: who ranks higher?
- Donald Bradman, on 93.6 against Viv Richards's 90.2 — a margin of 3.4 points.