Richie Benaud throws last shrimp on barbie
SAD news for all fans of cricket. Richie Benaud, the undisputed voice of the game, has announced he’s retiring from TV commentating after almost 50 years at the mic. Boo.
Anorak was brought up on Benaud’s shrewd, wry observations. He was the perfect antidote to the very English chuminess of Blowers, Johnners and co.
As a tribute to the great man, we’ve unearthed a few Benaud-related YouTube vids for you to enjoy…
Richie is disgusted
Richie rocks a very nasty 70s shirt
Richie on the subject of ball tampering
The 12th Man sends up Richie (features NSFW language)
Richie makes it into the Hall of Fame, part 1
Richie makes it into the Hall of Fame, part 2
Posted: 18th, February 2009 | In: Sports Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 18th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Sometime in the 70’s. I took my Dad to Trent Bridge for a test match. After walking miles to the ground from the nearest car park we joined the queue to get in. As we passed a gate we were shouldered out of the way by a couple of stewards who opened the gate to let in a car driven by Richie Benaud. In the passenger seat next to him was a pretty woman who appeared to be about half his age. My Dad turned to me and said, ‘You wouldn’t think his daughter would be interested in the Cricket too, would you’. I realised later that this was probably his wife Daphne, who definitely did have an interest in Cricket. I can’t remember who we were playing or what the result was but me and my Dad always had a laugh to ourselves at Richie’s ‘daughter’.