Richie Benaud
Richie Benaud
Richard "Richie" Benaud, OBEwas an Australian cricketer who, after his retirement from international cricket in 1964, became a highly regarded commentator on the game...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth6 October 1930
CityPenrith, Australia
CountryAustralia
absolutely near nowhere throw
His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.
saying
If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.
crowd great keen kerry known less life today
He would have been keen about the crowd here today - a packed house. Kerry was a great character, a really great character, so my life would have been less interesting without having known him all those years.
looked though time turned whether
He looked at me for a long time and just turned and said 'Thanks', though whether that's 'Thanks, but no thanks' or 'Thanks, thanks', I don't know.
disagree people saying series shades
It's my view, and people may disagree with it, that this series shades that tour. And that's saying something.
knew prepared race start
He prepared for before the first race, so that when the race was about to start he knew everything about what was going to happen.
good
He's usually a good puller - but he couldn't get it up that time.
attention crazy pay reading summer
I keep reading it is too long a summer but we keep having sell-outs at the matches. I think it would be crazy to pay too much attention to suggestions we need to shorten the summer.
bear confirm mind nice others talk
All these things are nice but you've got to bear in mind that out there - and I do get correspondence to confirm this - there are others who don't have me at the top, who say why don't you talk more, why don't you do this or that. Everyone has their own idea about commentating.
best commented last watched wonderful
The last two years have been the best I've watched and commented on in 57 years, ... The most exciting, skilful, and with wonderful fielding.
best cricket last watched
The last two years have been the best cricket I've watched in 57 years,
brain add gears
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
legs contradiction fine
Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.
thinking voice annoyed
But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.