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Benaud was awarded life membership by the New South Wales Cricket Association, but he returned it in protest in 1970 when his younger brother John was removed from the captaincy.
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Benaud and was
Benaud was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending thoughtful leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression.
Benaud was born in Penrith, New South Wales in 1930.
It was here that Richie Benaud grew up, learning how to bowl leg breaks, googlies and topspinners under his father's watch.
In November 1948, at the age of 18, Benaud was selected for the New South Wales Colts, the state youth team.
In his early career, Benaud was a batting all-rounder, marked by a looping backlift which made him suspect against fast bowling but allowed him to have a wide attacking stroke range.
Benaud was recalled to the New South Wales First XI in late December for the Christmas and New Year's fixtures.
Benaud erroneously recalled in an autobiography that this was his maiden wicket — it was his fourth — and described the ball as " the worst I ever bowled ".
The next season, England toured Australia, and with the Test players back, Benaud was initially forced out of the team.
Benaud was cementing his position and was in the senior team for four consecutive matches even with the Test players available.
Benaud was given a chance against the tourists when New South Wales played them in Sydney after the First Test.
Despite this, Benaud was chosen for his Test debut in the Fifth Test against the West Indies in 1951-52 in Sydney.
Although his form with the willow dropped off in his remaining six matches before the Tests — a 35 was his only score beyond 20 in seven attempts — Benaud continued to strike regularly with the ball.
In eight first-class matches after his Test campaign was over, Benaud added a further half-century in addition to the century against Pearce's XI, and took 22 more wickets, including 4 / 20 against the Gentlemen of England.
After returning home from his first overseas tour, Benaud was prolific during the 1953 – 54 Australian season, which was purely domestic with no touring Test team.
Despite his inability to contribute with either bat or ball in England, Benaud was the only bowler selected for all five Tests of the 1954-55 series when England visited Australia.
After a break in the international calendar of a year, the 1957-58 tour to South Africa heralded the start of a phase of three international seasons when Benaud was at his peak.
When Ian Craig fell ill at the start of the 1958-59 season, Benaud was promoted to the captaincy ahead of vice-captain Neil Harvey.
Benaud took over when Australian cricket was in a low phase with a young team.
Australia needed six runs from the final over, in which Benaud was caught and the last two wickets fell to run outs while attempting the winning run.
Australia won the series 2 – 1, and although Benaud was below his best, scoring at 21. 77 and taking 23 wickets at 33. 87, the series was a success for cricket.
The First Test at Edgbaston was drawn with Benaud taking three wickets.
Benaud and life
Johnnie Moyes said " Certainly Benaud received a little help from the roughened patches, but he could do what the off-spinners could not do: he could turn the ball, mostly slowly, sometimes with more life.
Benaud and by
An incident in the second Test of the 1960 – 61 series involved the West Indies player Joe Solomon being given out after his hat fell on the stumps after being bowled at by Richie Benaud.
In the next Shield match against Victoria, led by Australian captain Lindsay Hassett, Benaud came in for attack.
Benaud scored his maiden first-class century, 117 against South Australia, in the next match, two years after falling short of the milestone by seven runs.
Benaud was another contender with 219 wickets, but it was Statham who broke the record ( only to be overtaken by Trueman in New Zealand ) and Benaud had to be content with breaking Ray Lindwall's Australian record of 228 Test wickets.
In an early tour match Benaud took his best first class innings haul of 18-10-18-7 for New South Wales against the MCC, which lost by an innings and 80 runs, the state's biggest win against the English team.
The first Test of the season, against the touring South Africans, saw high drama as Australia's left arm paceman Ian Meckiff was called for throwing by Colin Egar and removed from the attack by Benaud after one over.
It was developed by the software company Turtlez Ltd. Having downloaded this, cricket fans would be treated to live Test match updates and weather reports from a cartoon version of Benaud with real voice samples such as " Got ' im!
His last goodbye was interrupted by Glenn McGrath taking Kevin Pietersen's wicket ; Benaud simply wove his description of the dismissal into what he was already saying.
Eulogies were given by Richie Benaud and Governor-General Sir William Deane.
Foreword by Richie Benaud
The recommendation to name the award after Sobers was made by a panel consisting of Richie Benaud, Sunil Gavaskar and Michael Holding, who were asked by the ICC " to select an individual with whom to honour cricket's ultimate individual award ".
The first statue commissioned was of bowler Richie Benaud and was unveiled on 4 January 2008 by Benaud himself.
He appealed against the ban but this was rejected by the ICC's code of conduct commissioner, Richie Benaud.
In the Fifth Test, Lawry had been ordered by captain Richie Benaud to occupy the crease and play out for a draw.
Playing back to a topspinner bowled by Richie Benaud, his cap fell off and dislodged a bail, so he was out " hit wicket ".
Led by Ted Dexter and managed by His Grace Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, KG, GCVO, PC they were to face the shrewd Australian captain Richie Benaud in the 1962-63 Ashes series and few thought they would win.
Described by Benaud as " one of the best innings at Test level ", it set up an Australian win.
This allowed Benaud to come in and bat with O ' Neill so that the two right-handed batsmen would give the Pakistanis no opportunity to waste time by switching the field.
Benaud and New
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 led New South Wales throughout a dominant season, winning the Sheffield Shield with 64 of the 80 possible points.
At one stage, New South Wales were six wickets down with less than 150 runs scored, but Benaud refused to attempt to defend for a draw.
In this match, Benaud had captained New South Wales and the hosts had the better of the play.
" His captain for Australia and New South Wales, Richie Benaud said that he was " one of the greatest entertainers we've had in Australian cricket ".
In the following 1953 – 54 season, Burge found a regular place and began the season in November with 103 against a New South Wales attack which included Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller and Richie Benaud.
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