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
game great maybe playing
And who knows, maybe one day they'll be playing the great game up there.
absolutely loved moment thank
Thank you for having me. It's been absolutely marvelous. I've loved every moment of it.
gone stand straight
....and that's gone straight into the confectionary stand and out again!!
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.
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.
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.
sports inspirational-sports facts
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
sports balls slow-motion
The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.