David "Dai" Richards (born 23 May 1954)[1] is a former Welsh international rugby union player.
In 1980 he toured South Africa with the British Lions and at the time played club rugby for Swansea.
He was brought into the Welsh side in 1979 for the Five Nations game against France in Paris in place of Llanelli's Ray Gravell.
In hindsight, many observers believe it would have been better to have retained the Steve Fenwick/Ray Gravell centre partnership and moved David Richards to fly-half instead of Cardiff's Gareth Davies.
He toured with the 1980 British Lions to South Africa, playing seven games, including one international appearance.