Originally Posted by
Jimmie76
Later on I was having dinner at the ground (night match) and I pointed out the bloke who had kindly paid for my travel to the ground, my shocked dinner companion said "But that's Sir Viv Richards" to which I said "Isn't he a cricketer or something". (I have 0% interest in Cricket and wouldn't know an England team member or a lot of todays celebs if I fell over them). So I shared a taxi with Sir Viv unknown to me at the time - nice chap.
He puts the miles in does Sir Viv. I was on a VS flight to Antigua at the end of September and got seat shifted due to a cancelled Barbados flight being merged with ours. When I looked who had got my seat it was him. A really nice guy though and he was a good laugh on the flight.