But Richie asked the pretty young woman out, and when he moved on to a job as a clerk at The Sun newspaper their relationship grew. Along with the West Indian captain Frank Worrell, Benaud's bold leadership enlivened interest in Test cricket among a public who had increasingly regarded it as boring. Benaud led his country. Richie Benaud (1930-2015) *84, Grave #86215750 - Sysoon 'But it suited [Richie] to keep it quiet, and so that's how it was kept.'. Richie Benaud's Death - Cause and Date Born (Birthday) Oct 6, 1930 Death Date April 10, 2015 Age of Death 84 years Cause of Death Skin Cancer Profession Cricket Player The cricket player Richie Benaud died at the age of 84. [7], For the next season, England toured Australia, and with the Test players back, Benaud was initially forced out of the team. ', Marcia said she waited two years to get divorced, 'because of my sons.' In the previous seasons when he and his team were at their peak, he had scored 636 runs at 31.8 with taken 108 wickets at 20.27 in eighteen Tests, averaging six wickets a match. [4] According to Neil Harvey, he also was the first captain who started hosting team meetings, a procedure now followed by his successors after he retired. [19] It was thought that the surface at the Oval would favour pacemen, but Australia's selection proved to be a blunder[21] as England's spinners[22] took them to the only win of the series, allowing them to regain the Ashes. [4] The first of these came in the First Test at Johannesburg, where after conceding 1/115, Benaud struck 122, his highest Test score, to see Australia reach a draw. Daphne Benaud invited sons Greg and Jeffrey to the private service, which was attended by about 20 people, before a more public wake at the Australian Golf Club. The cricketer turned broadcaster had been battling skin cancer and recovering from the after-effects of a car accident . [7], The 195152 season saw a tour to Australia by the West Indies. [6] Benaud's bold leadership coupled with his charismatic nature and public relations ability enlivened interest in Test cricket among a public who had increasingly regarded it as boring. It's been very much appreciated.'. A pioneering leg-spin bowler, Benaud played in 63 Tests, 28 as captain, before retiring in. Australian Cricket Commentator Richie Benaud Dies at 84 | Time [107], Benaud commentated for the BBC TV highlights of the 200607 Ashes in Australia as part of his continuing commentary work for Australia's Nine Network. 'When I heard that it was serious and Greg told me he had got [the cancer] in its bloodstream, I accepted that whatever God decided to do would be right,' she said. Richie Benaud died on April 10, 2015, after being diagnosed with skin cancer. Greg said he did not wish to discuss his brother Jeff, who is married with no children and is believed to have worked in marketing. He secured his place after scoring 125 against Queensland at the start of the season,[23] although his lead-up form in two matches against England for his state and an Australian XI was not encouraging. He had been battling skin cancer By Charlie Eccleshare Until. [35] He took 6/52 and 5/53, his best-ever match analysis, ending the series with 113 runs at 18.83 and 24 wickets at 17.66. But that extraordinary five-match encounter produced electrifying batsmanship, and bowling that was less concerned with shutting the game down than keeping it moving. Benaud was born in Penrith, New South Wales, in 1930. In his three Tests he averaged just three runs with the bat scoring 15 runs over five innings and took two wickets for 174 before ending the long tour in glory with 135 in a festival match at a crowded Scarborough ground, hitting 11 sixes to equal the world record at that time. He was recalled for a match against the Englishmen. When it became clear that the cricketing legend was finally about to succumb to skin cancer, Daphne contacted Jeff and Greg Benaud. Benaud embraced his players when opposition wickets fell, something that was uncommon at the time. However, he did not have much success in his five games, taking only five wickets at 54.00. In an early tour match Benaud took his best first class innings haul of 1810187 for New South Wales against the MCC, which lost by an innings and 80 runs, the state's biggest win against the English team. There would be very few Australians who have not passed a summer in the company of Richie Benaud. He ended with 121 and took four wickets in the match as Australia won by an innings and took the series 30. [112], "This is the greatest loss for cricket since the loss of Don Bradman and for that reason I'm pleased to have offered the Benaud family a state funeral. In addition to his accurate probing consistency, he possessed a well-disguised googly and topspinner which tricked many batsmen and yielded him many wickets. When live Test cricket disappeared from the BBC in 1999 he moved to Channel 4, and when terrestrial broadcasting ended in 2005 he refused to switch to pay TV. He played the game the right way., Our country has lost a national treasure, Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards said in a statement. His Australian cricket television commentary continued until it was brought to a halt by a car accident in 2013 and shortly afterwards he announced that he had skin cancer a legacy, he suspected, of his bareheaded days on the field. [55] Benaud had less of an impact on the next two Tests, which Australia lost and drew, totaling 6/244. [4], On his third and final tour to England in 1961, he was hampered by damaged tendons in his right shoulder, which forced him to miss the Second Test at Lord's known as the "Battle of the Ridge". His leg spin yielded ten wickets at 30.60, with a best of 4/118 in the Fourth Test in Adelaide when he was given a heavy workload, totalling 58 overs,[7] when Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller broke down during the match. [7] Benaud was the only bowler selected for all five Tests of the 195455 series when England visited Australia. Rich couldn't make it and I'll always be grateful that Mr Menzies said, "well your wife might like to go".'. Later that same day, there was a commemoration service officiated by former teammate turned lay preacher Brian Booth; attendees included his family and close friendsamong them former players, including Ian Chappell and Shane Warne, and Australian Test captain Michael Clarke. [4] Educated at Parramatta High School, Benaud made his first grade debut for Cumberland at age 16, primarily as a batsman. [124], Benaud was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961 for services to cricket. Vale Richie: Greg Benaud, 60, and his younger brother, Jeffrey, were very happy to be invited by Richie's second wife Daphne to attend the private funeral in April, for which Greg quipped he would have haircut, a shave and don a suit to farewell his Dad, 'I want to respect Jeff's privacy,' he said. It was screened before Australias Test series against India last December. Benaud was cementing his position and was in the senior team for four consecutive matches even with the Test players available. He was the accompaniment of an Australian summer. He was attacked by the touring batsmen, taking 1/75 from 16.5 overs in his first outing against an international outfit. [101] Some of his other memorable moments he commentated on included Shane Warne's "Ball of the Century",[102] Ian Botham's dominant all-round display during the 1981 Ashes,[97] Dennis Lillee overtaking Benaud's record for most wickets, and subsequent 300th and 310th wickets, and Andrew Symonds' tackle on a streaker. Richie commentated regularly during the 201112 season and was part of Nine's commentating team/roster. According to Eryk Bagshaw of The Sydney Morning Herald, Benaud had been in hospice care while. What an innings. [7][11] He then finished the summer strongly, and ended the season with 811 runs at 62.38 and 35 wickets at 30.54. [68] After Harvey led the team to victory at Lord's,[69] Benaud had an unhappy return in the Third at Headingley scoring two runs in two innings and taking match figures of 2/108 as Australia lost within three days. Benaud's ad featured him in various scenic locations uttering his signature comment, "Marvellous!". [25] After a draw in the Second Test,[26] he took three wickets in four balls to end with 4/15 in the first innings at Georgetown, Guyana, before scoring 68 (his first Test half century) as Australia moved to a 20 series lead. He led his country in 28 Tests and never lost a series as Australian captain. But he was a survivor, even if his friendship with Bradman never quite recovered from that cricket civil war. He was also a highly regarded tactician and never lost a Test series as Australia captain, winning five and drawing two. [8] He contributed significantly with both bat and ball in New South Wales' Sheffield Shield triumph, the first of nine consecutive titles. Category:Richie Benaud - Wikimedia Commons Midway through the season, he played in Morris's XI in a testimonial match for Hassett, who captained the other team. Six further wickets in the drawn Third Test saw Benaud end the series with 84 runs at 28 and 18 wickets at 21.11. At Adelaide, a nation was brought to a standstill during a long, pulsating last-wicket stand between Ken Mackay and the near-hopeless No 11 Lindsay Kline as they secured an unlikely draw for Australia. Marcia Benaud said she had not seen her former husband Richie (pictured in the West Indies in 1991) for 39 years 'except on TV', 'I enjoyed cricket, even though Richie said I didn't like it. [75] His aggressive tactical style brought large crowds throughout the season, with almost 18,000 watching one match against South Australia. After his retirement from international cricket in 1964, he became a well-known commentator on the game. [44] He took 5/82 in the second innings of the Fifth Test, the fourth consecutive match in which he had taken five wickets in an innings, as Australia took a 30 series win. Richie Benaud was a pioneering leg-spin bowler In the memorial booklet, Benaud's family described him as "a special person who means so much to each of us in many different ways". But some of them played below expectation, and Australias attack contained several bowlers whose actions were perceived as highly suspicious. The boys played cricket in the yard and at school, where Jeffrey made the school eleven and Greg 'started as an off break bowler and ended up as leg spin'. [42] He followed this with 5/114 in a drawn Third Test,[43] before a match-winning all round performance in the Fourth Test in Johannesburg. In October 2018, Benaud became the 40th Legend in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke said cricket had "lost perhaps its greatest advocate and someone who was a true giant of the modern game". [51] Benaud contributed 132 runs at 26.4 and 31 wickets at the low average of 18.83,[29][36] as well as his shrewd and innovative captaincy. Elder son: Greg Benaud, 60, (pictured) at the public housing cottage he shares with his mother Marcia, who married Richie Benaud in 1953 and had two sons who would only see their famous father occasionally after their parents divorced, Glamorous: Marcia Benaud, in January 1953, following her marriage to Richie, after which the newlyweds went to the Adelaide Oval where the new Mrs Benaud is pictured, above, watching her husband play a Test against South Africa, Sons of the father: Richie Benaud pictured at the beach with his two sons, Jeffrey (left) and Greg (right) in the happier days of his marriage to first wife Marcia, when he was playing Test cricket for Australia, Young beauty: Marcia Lavender was a shorthand typist when she met cricketer Richie Benaud at a Sydney city accounting firm in the early 1950s and he went on to begin his Test career. [105] It was also emulated by New Zealand broadcaster John Campbell. [8], He also showed his hitting ability in a tour match against T.N. It could have killed him if it had struck him where his skull was previously fractured. Richard "Richie" Benaud OBE ( / bno /; 6 October 1930 - 10 April 2015) was an Australian cricketer. [92], During Benaud's captaincy, Australia did not lose a series, and became the dominant team in world cricket. [11] He scored 20 not out and was not called on to bowl in the second innings. Richie Benaud dies aged 84 - rolling reaction The former Australia cricket captain and commentator, who played 63 Test matches, has died at the age of 84 Updated 9 Apr 2015 9 Apr 2015 Flags. [29], At the start of the 196364 season, Benaud announced that it would be his last at first-class level. Benaud contributed 46 and match figures of 2/73 in a First Test victory at Kingston. Lou Benaud, who had once taken all 20 wickets in a bush match, keenly and wisely guided his two sons. He defined an era with conviction and sincerity. Benaud, a former Australian captain and cricketing commentator, was 84 when he died in April 2015 after battling skin cancer. This included figures of 2/70 and 4/90 against the touring It was his first five-wicket haul in a Test innings. When the time came for Richie Benaud's final departure, Greg and Jeff were given the opportunity to visit their father, and they informed Marcia who said she took the philosophical view 'that it might be God's will'. Pearce's XI at Scarborough. He was 84 years old. He scored 97 in Australia's only innings and then took 7/46 in the hosts' first innings as the Australians took an innings win. [29][36][54] Benaud made a strong start to the series against India, taking 3/0 in the first innings of the First Test in Delhi, before a 5/76-second innings haul secured an innings victory. [62] He took 4/107 in a seven-wicket victory in Melbourne,[63] before the West Indies levelled the series with a 22-run win in Sydney. 'He likes to keep his privacy.'. He added another fifty and ended with 250 runs at 31.25. He had managed, in the 14 Tests since then, 559 runs at 27.95 and 67 wickets at 24.98. He appeared in Richie Benaud's Greatest XI, a video in which he chooses his own team. Richie Benaud. . [7] Although his form with the willow dropped off in his remaining six matches before the Testsa 35 was his only score beyond 20 in seven attemptsBenaud continued to strike regularly with the ball. Richie Benaud died on April 10, 2015, after being diagnosed with skin cancer. They were different times and it was the right thing to do for them.'. Australia had fallen to 6/92 on the final day chasing a target of 233 with Benaud and Davidson at the crease. Talking about her marriage to the onetime Australian cricket captain, Ms Benaud's eyes filled with tears and she said: 'He shouldn't have left'. [119] He died in his sleep on 10 April 2015. Benaud was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Inside Matt Hancock's 41-hour battle to save his career when photo of 'a snog and heavy petting' with aide Will Vladimir Putin's empress pay the ultimate price for his war on the West? Shane Warne death: Ian Healy not surprised by spin legend's passing in He wrote a number of books, rather serious works written with little flourish, and there were two books about him, one by AG Moyes and a later study by Mark Browning. [29][36] The first two seasons of the Benaud captaincy had been a resounding success, with Australia winning eight, drawing four and losing only one Test. ", "Well, the answer to that", Benaud replied, "If there is, as there always can be, some emergency or a sensational happening on or off the field where it would be quite ridiculous not to go into the commentary box, of course I'll be in there doing my job and doing it as professionally as I can. He had been receiving treatment for skin cancer since November. Harvey and Benaud had been captains of their respective states until Harvey moved in the same season for employment purposes from Victoria to New South Wales and became Benaud's deputy. Benaud was the top wicket-taker on the tour, with 32 wickets at 19.31, and Australia's top wicket-taker in the three matches against New Zealand, with 15 wickets at 21.73. He had brought novel flashes of exhibitionism into play on the cricket field, racing over to embrace a fieldsman after a catch, his own shirt unbuttoned almost to the navel. Richie Benaud dead | The Australian In 1963 he became the first player to complete the Test double of 200 wickets and 2,000 runs. Link to video: Richie Benaud became a household name for a whole new generation when he moved from the oval to the commentary box. Richie Benaud Biography Richie Benaud Networth Oscar Cainer tells all. I've got a black dress hanging inside,' Marcia said, laughing. Benaud erroneously recalled in an autobiography that this was his maiden wicketit was, in fact, his fourthand described the ball as "the worst I ever bowled". Richie Benaud Death Anniversary: Lesser-known Facts About the 'Voice of A strong England party, led by Peter May, were widely expected to retain the Ashes. Benaud took 3/116 to complement scores of 43 and 90 on his return in the Third Test in Sydney. 'It's 39 years since I spoke to or saw him, except on TV,' she said. He was known for his unbuttoned shirt, and raised eyebrows with his on-field exuberance. His father Louis, a third-generation Australian of French Huguenot descent,[4] was a leg spinner who played for Penrith District Cricket Club in Sydney Grade Cricket, gaining attention for taking all twenty wickets in a match against St. Marys for 65. Leading opposition batsman Everton Weekes edged Benaud in his first over, but Gil Langley dropped the catch. [7] Hassett was known for his prowess against spin bowling, being the only batsman to score centuries in a match against the leg-spin of Bill O'Reilly, regarded as the finest bowler of his age. In 2017, the Australian Mint issued a 50-cent coin commemorating Benaud.

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