58 Quotes by Richie Benaud

We first met during the formation of World Series cricket. There was never anything mundane or orthodox about him. At the meeting I had with him, the thing that struck me most was that he was concerned only with the players. It was his job to put (the poor state of cricket) right, and put it right he did. He was absolutely brilliant.

Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now.

And who knows, maybe one day they'll be playing the great game up there.

I've been picking around with the game now for some time, but I've never seen anything like this -

Thank you for having me. It's been absolutely marvelous. I've loved every moment of it.

....and that's gone straight into the confectionary stand and out again!!

It's my view, and people may disagree with it, that this series shades that tour. And that's saying something.

I keep reading it is too long a summer but we keep having sell-outs at the matches. I think it would be crazy to pay too much attention to suggestions we need to shorten the summer.

He's usually a good puller - but he couldn't get it up that time.