Hugh Manatee
Veteran
Not much to be added. As a cricket fan Richie added so much to my enjoyment of the game. I believe he only commentated on free to air channels and never chased the corporate dollar.
He will be missed.
He will be missed.
Blimey this thread is like sitting in a pub with a bunch of auld phaarts.
So he can watch the Cricket?Yup, and you would be the young whippersnapper spending all night on the fruit machine drinking fizzy pish and trying to persuade the landlord to get a big telly and Sky sports.
So he can watch the Cricket?
Yup, and you would be the young whippersnapper spending all night on the fruit machine drinking fizzy pish and trying to persuade the landlord to get a big telly and Sky sports.
Perhaps... I certainly wouldn't be perched bluffly attempting to show the world I had a conscience and a knowledge of current sporting affairs, as I don't feel the need to prove my humanity.
But that's what they built pubs for, to talk about sport and how good the old days were. Sometimes the two combine which is enough to keep us nursing half a pint until closing time.
I'm pretty sure that's not what they built t' interwebs for, though.
According to Frances Edmonds (Phil Edmonds wife) " Cricket is a game best watched through the meniscus of a large gin & tonic"
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Another-Bloody-Tour-Frances-Edmonds/dp/B001ONCIN4&ei=SwwoVfnyJ4GyUMj9gagB&usg=AFQjCNF52mzmGd6_CmHN0eJybPFXq5k-3w&bvm=bv.90491159,d.d24
I can just imagine that. Perfect. As Mad Doug says, along with Bill McLaren, just in a class of his own. Woven through my growing up. Nothing's been the same since he & McLaren stopped commentating. Or I suspect ever will be. RIP.There are very, very few commentators who have said things I remember for more than a minute.
Benaud is one of them.
A batsman walloped one of the Aussie bowlers for six using a stroke that won't appear in any coaching manual.
Benaud paused for a second or two, then with no emphasis said: "Whacko."
Dry, under stated, perfect timing - just brilliant.