Benaud

[McBain]

The great Champion is retiring.

"perhaps the most influential cricketer and cricket personality since the Second World War."

"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

Benaud was not a large spinner of the ball, but he was known for his ability to extract substantial bounce from the surface. In addition to his accurate probing consistency, he possessed a well-disguised googly and top spinner which tricked many batsmen and yielded him many wickets. In his later career, he added the flipper, a combination of the googly and top spinner which was passed to him by Bruce Dooland. Coupled with his subtle variations in flight and angle of the delivery, he kept the batsman under constant pressure.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Benaud#cite_note-wisden-2Benaud was regarded as one of the finest close-fielders of his era, either at gully or in a silly position. As a batsman, he was tall and lithe, known for his hitting power, in particular his lofted driving ability from the front foot

Benaud has become a staunch advocate of cricket being available on free-to-view TV. He chose to end his British commentary career, which spanned more than 42 years, when the rights to broadcast live Test match cricket were lost by Channel 4 to the subscription broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting. Thus, the 2005 Ashes series was the last that Benaud commentated on in Britain.

On February 18, 2009, during a radio interview, Benaud announced that he would be retiring from television commentary. Benaud said: "I’ll be doing Australian cricket next year – 2010 – but I don’t do any television at all anywhere else now and when I finish next year, then I’ll be doing other things...But that’ll be no more television commentary".[24] 2010 will be his 46th and final year of broadcasting.

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[bobbyrob]

6 & out .............His commentry will be missed

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Benaud is one of the greats. In general, the cricket commentators put the so called experts we get in football to shame.

 

[Bundy]

Good, looked like he would keel over soon. That replacement they got for him is ok, even if he is a pom.

 

[McBain]

Good, looked like he would keel over soon. That replacement they got for him is ok, even if he is a pom.

Thats just un-australian.

Shame Shame Shame you bad Queenslander.

 

[Bundy]

Thats just un-australian.

Shame Shame Shame you bad Queenslander.

I didnt mean anything bad by it. I just meant he was getting to old and he should go and do something else and plust I didn't want to see him kick the bucket on air.