Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #15 – April 10, 2015, 12:22:51 pm Cricket just won't be the same without the great Richie Benaud. RIP.
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #16 – April 10, 2015, 12:56:43 pm I'm getting on a bit now, but I honestly cant remember ever hearing a bad word about Richie Benaud.Gentleman is a term being generally used. Humble is another.A champion sportsman and a champion personRIP
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #17 – April 10, 2015, 03:26:22 pm Very sad, RIP Ritchie, thanks for many memories, you made cricket so much more enjoyable to watch
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #18 – April 10, 2015, 03:30:27 pm I use to see Richie every day on his morning walk in Coogee.RIP
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #19 – April 10, 2015, 03:35:16 pm Quote from: Lods on April 10, 2015, 12:56:43 pmI'm getting on a bit now, but I honestly cant remember ever hearing a bad word about Richie Benaud.Gentleman is a term being generally used. Humble is another.A champion sportsman and a champion personRIPPerfectly said. +2
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #20 – April 10, 2015, 04:41:53 pm Quote from: DJC on April 10, 2015, 11:54:30 amRichie Benaud was a cricket legend when I was at primary school although I have much stronger memories of Bill Lawry (a Victorian and I was a bit older when he was skipper) and John Benaud (who dared to wear Adidas cricket boots with coloured stripes).Richie was a bit of a lad, playing with his shirt unbuttoned, but that was the influence of Keith Miller. In fact, I recall Richie saying that the exposure to the sun that caused his skin cancer was because Keith Miller didn't wear a hat and everyone wanted to be like Miller.Of course, for most of my life, Richie has been a cricket commentator. At times he was a tad annoying but he was always knowledgeable and forthright. He was self-deprecating too and rarely spoke about his own career.Probably the thing that epitomises Richie's life is the recent Australia Day ad. Clearly his health was failing but it was a good cause and he had a bit of fun. It featured his propensity for understatement and his dry sense of humour and is a fitting tribute to a great cricketer, entertainer and Australian.RIPx2 You covered it all DJ....sad loss to cricket and Aus culture..
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #21 – April 10, 2015, 04:46:07 pm Richie and Kieth Millar were thought to be getting paid to wear a hair lotion. When Richie was asked about it he answered that he couldn't possibly say whether he was or not and nor could he tell how much he was getting.I don't think we'll ever see that type of wit or charm in the commentary box again.
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #22 – April 10, 2015, 05:08:09 pm Every now and again he'd pull a great self deprecating comment for the whitewater rafting prize in the classic catches segment.
Re: RIP Richie Benaud Reply #23 – April 10, 2015, 06:07:41 pm Quote from: bratblue on April 10, 2015, 04:46:07 pmRichie and Kieth Millar were thought to be getting paid to wear a hair lotion. When Richie was asked about it he answered that he couldn't possibly say whether he was or not and nor could he tell how much he was getting.I don't think we'll ever see that type of wit or charm in the commentary box again.Keith Miller was my boyhood cricketing hero - suave and dashing in those days, an ex Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, famous cricketer and an inexhaustible supply of Brylcreme . All my dreams rolled into one! Rich was the much better broadcaster though.
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