After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

In an oft-quoted phrase, Ranjitsinhji said of Grace that " he turned the old one-stringed instrument ( i. e., the cricket bat ) into a many-chorded lyre " and that " the theory of modern batting is in all essentials the result of W. G.

Throughout his school years he was an avid football ( soccer ) and cricket player, and was actually offered a contract with Nottingham Forest F. C., which he turned down in order to attend university.

He was later awarded a fourth class degree, and with his career plans ruined by academic failure he turned to his other talents, specifically football and cricket.

* Ian Smith ( New Zealand cricketer ) ( born 1957 ), former cricket player turned sporting commentator

Ian David Stockley Smith ( born 28 February 1957 ) is a former cricket player turned sporting commentator.

Ever since she turned cricket show anchor, she has hosted over 150 corporate events, shows and awards for companies like Asian Paints, HSBC, Cartier, ICICI bank, ING vysya, Anand Bazaar Patrika Group, Samsung, L & T, Deutshche Bank, BMW, Audi, LG, Canon, Citibank, Diageo, Accenture and Puma.

The Ranji final of 1984 / 85 turned out to be one of the finest matches in Indian domestic cricket history.

As cricket and hockey began to overlap in his early teenage years, Slater slowly turned the majority of his sporting appetite towards cricket.

Following another fine season for Essex which turned out to be his last season of county cricket, Grant Flower was handed a shock recall to the Zimbabwe team for the tour of South Africa.

Rampaul returned to cricket when he turned up in Trinidad league cricket in February 2005, and represented Trinidad and Tobago again during the 2005 – 06 KFC Cup in October, where he played four matches and was Trinidad and Tobago's leading wicket-taker along with Samuel Badree.

After a dramatic loss during the Griqualand West Open in Kimberley-after which he cut all the strings from his racket in the changing room-Wessels turned down the offer from Houston and decided to focus all his attention on cricket.

In summer the prisoners turned to cricket on ‘ The Oval ’, played to packed houses.

In fact, Lohmann was not well enough to play any cricket until the 1894 / 1895 Currie Cup final where he turned out for Western Province.

Cook originally was caught up working on Cricket Blog, a cricket website, but his interests turned towards Skeptical Science, a site about information on global warming.

A leg fracture curtailed Jarman's football career and he turned to umpiring while concentrating on cricket.

An abnormally dry summer with unfavourable wickets in 1901 gave him what turned out to be his poorest record in first-class cricket in England ; though, with Rhodes not permitted by the Yorkshire committee to tour Australia, Blythe surprisingly went in his place but did not prove a totally adequate substitute.

He retired from first-class cricket in 1993, but later turned out in Minor Counties cricket for Suffolk, playing in the NatWest Trophy at the age of 49, and in a match for ' Old Suffolk ' in 2004.

He joined Brighton College in August 1884, and after playing a couple of cricket matches, the weather turned and the football season began.

He turned his attention to journalism, writing a regular cricket column for the The Australasian, a weekly published by Melbourne's Argus newspaper.

He also appeared four times in the 1996 World Cup, but thereafter the selectors ' preference turned decisively to Tufnell, and Illingworth never played international cricket again.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.

No sooner were they through and the guards posted, than the whole camp turned in for a night of sound sleep.

Avant-garde choreographers, seeking new forms of continuity for their new vocabulary of movements, have turned to similar approaches.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

He found the pilot light and turned on one of the burners for her.

In their search for what turned out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver, they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

Watson turned away, sickened for the first time in many months.

In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.

They are struggling to meet the demand for camping space, but families are being turned away, especially on holiday weekends.

Shot near the heart, he turned to one side and plunged for a door to another room several feet away, three bullets following him.

Then he turned the telephone over to Rourke, and went into the bedroom to change his slippers for dry socks and shoes.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

A refuse bin at the Dumont turned up a florist's box -- a very long box for very long-stemmed flowers.

He turned his head to the source of the disturbance and instantly back to the window and his rifle sight, dismissing Hoag for the moment with the same contempt he had shown in their encounter at Hoag's apartment.

Then, as he turned toward the telephone, it rang shrilly to shatter the stillness in the room and he reached for it eagerly.

Both turned in top jobs for the second straight game.