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Cricketer
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Geoffrey Alan Richards
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Auckland, Auckland Region, New Zealand
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Auckland, Auckland Region, New Zealand
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91 years
Awards
Member of the Order of the British Empire
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Geoffrey Alan Richards MBE (9 May 1922 – 27 December 2013) was a New Zealand cricketer and sports commentator.
Alan Richards played five first-class matches for Auckland in 1955/56. At the end of the season he began his radio career by describing New Zealand's first Test victory, at Eden Park against West Indies. 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 receiving the MBE for services to sport in 1988.
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