He was a neat and efficient wicketkeeper, taller than most at 5' 11", whose excellent footwork and agility' allied to his effective middle-order batting, made him a genuine England contender.
[6] Given that the selectors had up to this point favoured him for one-day internationals, of which he had played 21 compared to 6 Tests, he might have been expecting to appear in the 1987 ICC Cricket World Cup that autumn.
2, was selected for the Australian and New Zealand legs of a long winter], but would play only one more one-day international, at Melbourne, the scene of a previous triumph.
Richards made two more Test appearances the following summer against the West Indies, but England lost both matches and he failed to make an impact with his batting, previously his strength.
[7] He now lives in Belgium with his Dutch wife, running a successful Rotterdam shipping firm in neighbouring Holland and director of an international recruitment and crewing agency.