Mongoose is right. Richardson was far from complete. His main shot was the forward defensive, occasionally he would push through and turn it into a cover drive. He was a brilliant leaver, an obvious skill to have by any top batsman. He could judge the width beautifully and be in complete control, even with the ball extremely close to his stumps. It is his leaving ability that helped him build long innings. He was very poor against the short ball, but often had the ability to not play with his bat, this of course meant he had to take a few blows to the body/head. Well, you can't make an omlette....

A good player, very interesting. He could concentrate and had a tremendous amount of patience and discipline but I think his career was very hard work for him. He pretty much admitted that, after his Lords century, he was spent. He retired soon after.

A nice guy, an excellent cricketer, a credit to cricket, but a limited player and somewhat an over-acheiver I feel.

A great player? No chance. A guy you'd want on your side? Yeah!, why not?