Alan Richards (cricketer)

Geoffrey Alan Richards MBE (9 May 1922 – 27 December 2013) was a New Zealand cricketer and sports commentator.[1]

Alan Richards played five first-class matches for Auckland in 1955–56, captaining the team in all of them, including the match against the touring West Indians, when he scored 53 and 30 not out.[2] At the end of the season he began his radio career by describing New Zealand's first Test victory, at Eden Park in Auckland against West Indies.[3] He became one of New Zealand's best-known radio sports commentators, covering four New Zealand cricket tours of England between 1973 and 1986, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to sport, in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours.[4][3][5]