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Book Title: Myth-Busting Indian Cricket Behind the Headlines
Author: Gulu Ezekiel
Rohit Mahajan
Viv Richards, probably the most fearsome destructor of bowlers, trusted God to protect his head from the hard red ball hurled at him by fast bowlers. In an interview in 2013, he talked about playing for his team, West Indies, in nearly spiritual tones: “I don’t think I would have done that cap any justice if I had anything else on the head… I felt God will protect me from whatever I was facing out in the middle.”
It seems that Richards didn’t trust God and his cap completely — at least not when he was donning the cap of a team in Australia or England. Gulu Ezekiel writes that the great West Indian occasionally did come to the conclusion that, just in case God decided to forsake him, a helmet might be useful to protect his skull.