Sir Viv Richards' son joined Virat Kohli's list of admirers

It was a few days after the West Indies batting great Sir Viv Richards praised India’s Test skipper Virat Kohli for his brilliant double century, his son Mali Richards, joined the list of admirers of Virat Kohli.

Mali Richards had played 18 first-class matches and also owns an art gallery T.H.O.C (The House of Creativity). Mali came to meet the Indian Test skipper Kohli at the team hotel with his father and business partner Ron Howell (Guava De Artist).

Mali had presented him a painting of him celebrating his first ever double century at the Antigua. “We were excited when we found out that Kohli is going to be Antigua for the first Test. We wanted to do something creative for him but back then we did not know the exact date of his arrival,” Mali told BCCI.TV.

“We decided to commemorate his maiden double hundred as he registered the milestone here in Antigua. We prepared the entire painting in just one day and came here to present it to him,” he added.

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Earlier in a chat with this website, Sir Viv had termed Kohli’s double as “magnificent”. “I think It was a magnificent hundred. To score a double hundred at Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground is a formidable task in terms of what he has achieved. As a batsman myself, it was very pleasing to see and even though it was against the West Indies, I do appreciate seeing class and his was a classy knock.”

In their previous meeting, Kohli has been over-awed by the presence of Richards and took to twitter to reiterate the same.

What a memorable moment. With the greatest ever, Sir @vivrichards56. Words of gold from him. #Grateful #Memorable pic.twitter.com/sK0xsIDC3P

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) July 19, 2016