'Voice Of Cricket' Richie Benaud Dies

Super Nova · Post by **Super Nova** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:51 pm

RIP Richie.

He is the voice of cricket in my mind.

Neferti · Post by **Neferti** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:58 pm

Yes, good old "Rusty Renault"! He will be missed in the cricket world. He was 84 and it doesn't sound as though he was sick, just that his time was up. RIP Richie.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:26 am

I missed hearing Richie this year, it is sad to have lost him.

RIP Richie.

skippy · Post by **skippy** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 5:18 pm

He seems to have been a Cricket commentator for as long as I remember watching it on tv.
RIP.

Neferti · Post by **Neferti** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:37 am

Richie Benaud's family declines Prime Minister Tony Abbott's offer of state funeral.

But Benaud's widow Daphne phoned Canberra on Saturday to kindly decline the offer of a state funeral.

"I thought it was important that as a mark of the respect that we have long had for him that we should offer a state funeral," Mr Abbott told reporters on Sunday.

"But my understanding is that Richie's own wishes were for something very, very quiet, and something very, very private."

He will be remembered this week with a private gathering attended only by his immediate family.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-12/b ... er/6386624

Good call.

Why does his wife look so familiar? Was she a model or something?

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