Richard "Richie" Benaud, OBE (/ˈbɛnoʊ/; 6 October 1930– 10 April 2015) was an Australian cricketer who, after his retirement from international cricket in 1964, became a highly regarded commentator on the game.
Benaud was a Test cricketall-rounder, blending leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson, he helped restore Australia to the top of world cricket in the late 1950s and early 1960s after a slump in the early 1950s. In 1958 he became Australia's Test captain until his retirement in 1964. He became the first player to reach 200 wickets and 2,000 runs in Test cricket, arriving at that milestone in 1963.
Gideon Haigh described him as "perhaps the most influential cricketer and cricket personality since the Second World War." In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: "Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game."
"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent."
"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."
"The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling."
"I've been picking around with the game now for some time, but I've never seen anything like this -"
"We first met during the formation of World Series cricket. There was never anything mundane or orthodox about him. At the meeting I had with him, the thing that struck me most was that he was concerned only with the players. It was his job to put (the poor state of cricket) right, and put it right he did. He was absolutely brilliant."
"Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now."
"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."
"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."
"The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time."
"He's usually a good puller - but he couldn't get it up that time."
A collection of some of Richie Benaud's best moments from his commentary career with the Nine Network
published: 15 Apr 2015
Richie Benaud's Final Few Minutes
Richie Benaud's final stint on commentary during the 2005 Ashes Series
published: 03 Aug 2011
Skull on the great Richie Benaud 😂🙏🎙️🏏
published: 07 Apr 2022
Richie Benaud is angry
http://cricketwithballs.com shows you a time in Australia when one man spoke, and we all listened.
published: 30 Dec 2008
Best of the great Richie Benaud!
Some classic lines and marvellous commentary from the great Richie Benaud!
published: 10 Mar 2020
Benaud battling skin cancer
Wide World of Sports commentator and cricket legend Richie Benaud has revealed he is undergoing radiation therapy to treat skin cancer.
published: 10 Nov 2014
BBQ at Richie Benaud's house?
Channel Nine cricket legend Richie Benaud is apparently having a BBQ at his house on Australia day, but despite a long invite list there will be no "12th Man"
published: 09 Jan 2015
Richie Benaud: remembered by Rory Bremner
Comedian, impressionist and cricket aficionado Rory Bremner talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about Richie Benaud.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1Fv35tp
Channel Nine cricket legend Richie Benaud is apparently having a BBQ at his house on Australia day, but despite a long invite list there will be no "12th Man"
Channel Nine cricket legend Richie Benaud is apparently having a BBQ at his house on Australia day, but despite a long invite list there will be no "12th Man"
Channel Nine cricket legend Richie Benaud is apparently having a BBQ at his house on Australia day, but despite a long invite list there will be no "12th Man"
Channel Nine cricket legend Richie Benaud is apparently having a BBQ at his house on Australia day, but despite a long invite list there will be no "12th Man"
Richard "Richie" Benaud, OBE (/ˈbɛnoʊ/; 6 October 1930– 10 April 2015) was an Australian cricketer who, after his retirement from international cricket in 1964, became a highly regarded commentator on the game.
Benaud was a Test cricketall-rounder, blending leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson, he helped restore Australia to the top of world cricket in the late 1950s and early 1960s after a slump in the early 1950s. In 1958 he became Australia's Test captain until his retirement in 1964. He became the first player to reach 200 wickets and 2,000 runs in Test cricket, arriving at that milestone in 1963.
Gideon Haigh described him as "perhaps the most influential cricketer and cricket personality since the Second World War." In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: "Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game."
He scored 29 centuries and 13 fifties in his 52 Test matches.In a 1996 interview with Ray Martin for the Bradman Museum in Bowral, Bradman expressed concern over the decline of leg-spin bowling since ...
He also excelled personally, taking 21 wickets in the series.Under Cummins' leadership, Australia won the Test series in Pakistan in 2022 (1-0) after 24 years and performed admirably in other overseas ...
The opposing captains – old-school Peter May and innovative Richie Benaud – are portrayed as symbols of a changing postwar society, and the prose throbs for the passion the authors still feel for this famously electrifying series ...Share ... .
Australia has had a great tradition of spinners — from Clarrie Grimmet, the first bowler to claim 200 Test wickets, to Richie Benaud, a man everyone recognises as the voice of cricket but a great ...
Several world-class athletes in various sports have made the transition into being world-class presenters (Richie Benaud and Jack Kramer spring to mind), as opposed to pundits, of which there are many, and commentators – a few, mostly in cricket.
All I say to that is you must be kidding ... Richie Benaud used to say you never stop learning! Our youngsters seem to think they invented the wheel, don’t want to change and that we oldies don’t know anything about Test match cricket ... .
The only other person known to have reached this magical milestone is the late, great Australian captain – and legendary commentator – Richie Benaud. England’s batting used to be bent on survival, based on the fear of getting out ... .
'I don't know what happened to it ... Commentating for Channel Nine at the time, former Australian captain Richie Benaud described the act as 'disgraceful' and also said it was 'one of the worst things I have ever seen on a cricket field.' ... .
