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Sir Vivian Richards Trophy

cricket trophy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ30644502 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Sir Vivian Richards Trophy is a cricket trophy that is awarded to the winner of Test series between South Africa and West Indies. While the two sides first played each other in a Test series in the 1991/92 season, a one-match series in which the West Indians emerged the winners, the series between the two sides was only named starting with the 1998/99 West Indian tour of South Africa, a five-match series won by the hosts 5-0. The Trophy has since been contested another eight times, and South Africa has emerged the winner and retained the Trophy each time.

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“Sir Vivian Richards Trophy” enters the record as cricket trophy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vivian, Richards and Trophy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vivian, Richards and Trophy.
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“Sir Vivian Richards Trophy” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vivian, Richards and Trophy provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30644502. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sir Vivian Richards Trophy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.