
Viv Richards is a cricketer, association football player (Australia).
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (born 7 March 1952) is a retired Antiguan cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Usually batting at number three in a dominant West Indies side, Richards is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Richards was part of the squads that won the 1975 Cricket World Cup and 1979 Cricket World Cup and finished as runners-up in the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Richards made his Test debut in 1974 against India along with Gordon Greenidge. His best years were between 1976 and 1983, during which time he averaged a remarkable 66.51 with the bat in Test cricket. In 1984 he suffered from pterygium and had eye surgery which affected his eyesight and reflexes.
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| Born | 7 March 1952 |
| Profession | cricketer, association football player |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Children | Masaba Gupta, Mali Richards |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Wisden Cricketer of the Year |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Cancer |
| Nakshatra | Pushya (Pada 1) |
| Sun Sign | Aquarius |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Sagittarius |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: 765 Notable Horoscopes) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 194 sportspeople with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 23 of them (12%) have the Moon in Cancer, like Viv Richards, and 13 (7%) share the Pushya Nakshatra — the most common Moon Nakshatra among sportspeople.
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Viv Richards was born on 7 March 1952. Birth details come from a published reference (source: 765 Notable Horoscopes) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Viv Richards's Moon sign (Rashi) is Cancer and the Nakshatra is Pushya, pada 1, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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