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.

On a green pitch which was struck by a downpour on the opening day, Benaud's spin was not used by Arthur Morris and he failed to make an impression with the bat in his only innings, scoring only two.

It was another lean series with the ball, Benaud's 17 wickets costing 40. 47, the third consecutive series where his wickets cost more than 30.

Birmingham traditionally plays all the roles ( with the exception of Ken Sutcliffe and some minor female characters, such as Richie Benaud's secretary ).

In December 1960, Test cricket's first-ever Tied Test took place at the ground when Richie Benaud's Australian team tied with Frank Worrell's West Indian side.

It seemed that Harvey would captain Australia in a Test for the first time with Benaud's shoulder still problematic, but the captain declared himself fit.

The Australian team for Benaud's debut Test match.

Benaud's Test career batting performance

Benaud's men won the Second Test, before he took 5 / 83 and 4 / 94 in the drawn Third Test.

Benaud took 5 / 72 and scored 43 in the First Test, but then injured himself in a grade match, so Bob Simpson captained the team for the Second Test and won the match in Benaud's absence.

* Benaud's highest Test score of 122 was made against South Africa, Johannesburg, 1957 – 1958

After breaking Richie Benaud's Australian Test record of 248 wickets, Lillee toured England in 1981 when his preparation was compromised by a viral infection.

He recovered sufficiently to break Geoff Boycott's forearm in a tour match just before the vital Seventh Test, but was not recalled and was left stranded on 246 Test wickets, two short of Richie Benaud's Australian record.

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " 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.

They were booed and heckled as they left the field and Benaud's reputation as a " go ahead " cricket captain was badly tanished.

During Benaud's captaincy, Australia did not lose a series, and became the dominant team in world cricket.

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.

Hassett struck 179 in four hours, and took 47 runs from Benaud's seven overs.

Benaud's bowling reached a new level on the return leg of Australia's overseas tour, when they stopped in the Indian subcontinent in 1956-57 en route back to Australia.

Benaud's personal form was a major factor in this success.

Benaud's 5 / 13 in 25 balls instigated an English collapse which saw Australia retain the Ashes.

" He also appeared in Richie Benaud's Greatest XI, a video in which he chooses his own team.

Benaud's book My Spin on Cricket was published in 2005.

On 29 October 2008, Benaud's mother Irene died, aged 104.

Despite sending a very strong team on the 1958 – 59 tour of Australia and New Zealand, England lost The Ashes to Richie Benaud's Australians.

As Benaud's deputy, Harvey helped materially in Australia's surprise 4 – 0 series victory to reclaim the Ashes.

Prior to the trip, Harvey made 112 in the second innings to help Lindwall's XI defeat Benaud's XI by seven wickets.

Harvey began his final tour to England in 1961, and Benaud's regular absences due to a shoulder injury allowed him to lead Australia for a third of the tour matches.

The victory in Kargil bolstered the image of Vajpayee and he was hailed across the country for his bold and strong leadership.

Feeling misguided and deceived, Stanton and Anthony resorted to such bold action largely due to their belief that the preponderance of men composing the AERA leadership had betrayed women's interest.

King Carol met difficulties in preserving his rule after being faced with a decline in the appeal of the more traditional parties, and, as Tătărescu's term approached its end, he made a bold offer to Codreanu, demanding leadership of the Legion in exchange for a Legion cabinet ; he was promptly refused.

Under the bold leadership of President Spoelhof, the college made plans to move forward.

Observers noted that, in China's non-electoral political system, Bo's high-profile presence and bold political maneuvers effectively amounted to a public campaign for the top leadership.

" Canada's actions were immediately praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who described them as " bold leadership.

Vinod Vaish, then Chairman of the Telecom Commission made a very bold decision to promote younger talent from within the organisation to take up a leadership role and promoted the older leaders to a role in licensing rather than in managing the operations of BSNL.

Fuller, a British staff officer, submitted a study titled “ Attack by Paralyzation ”, a bold new plan involving tanks and air support that aimed to target the German leadership and supply lines, as opposed to the then current tactic of grinding away at the main forces.

Tye's knowledge of Monmouth County and his bold leadership soon made him a well-known and feared Loyalist guerrilla commander.

The organization ’ s purpose was to examine specific instances of bold, creative leadership that combined sound business management with social conscience.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

Protracted conflict through the seventeenth century with more radical Protestants on the one hand and Roman Catholics who still recognised the primacy of the Pope on the other, resulted in an association of churches that were both deliberately vague about doctrinal principles, yet bold in developing parameters of acceptable deviation.

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Knossos.

Embittered Bacardi helmsman José Pepín Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries ( the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times ).

ould it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end?

Blues Singer # 4 shows a female singer on stage with a white flower on her shoulder and a bold red dress, reminisecent of Ella Fitzgerald.

Commentary on the appropriateness of the orders for temples devoted to particular deities ( Vitruvius I. 2. 5 ) were elaborated by Renaissance theorists, with Doric characterized as bold and manly, Ionic as matronly, and Corinthian as maidenly.

Patterns and motifs are coarser with thicker yarns and produce bold visual effects, whereas thinner yarns are best for refined or delicate patternwork.

Although he had other sponsors during his career, his No. 3 is associated in fans ' minds with his last sponsor, GM Goodwrench, and his last color scheme — a predominantly black car with bold red and silver trim.

The throwbacks are primarily white with five red horizontal stripes on the body, the broadest middle stripe bearing " DETROIT " in bold letters, and three red stripes on the sleeves.

These jerseys were white, with a single bold red stripe on the sleeves and chest, and a uniquely-styled white Old English " D " ( a Detroit sports tradition, but formerly used by the Wings, Detroit Lions, and the University of Detroit Titans ) centered on the chest stripe, but not to be confused with the Old English " D " used by the Detroit Tigers.

The latter did not seem to have been pleased with Guido ’ s bold and forward attacks upon Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Puccini succeeded in mastering the orchestra as no other Italian had done before him, creating new forms by manipulating structures inherited from the great Italian tradition, loading them with bold harmonic progressions which had little or nothing to do with what was happening then in Italy, though they were in step with the work of French, Austrian and German colleagues.

Patterns and motifs are coarser with thicker yarns ; thicker yarns produce bold visual effects, whereas thinner yarns are best for refined patterns.