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    RIP Richie Benaud

    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Ritchies take on THAT under arm bowl, Bob


    Post-match, delivering his familiar piece to camera wrapping up the Channel Nine coverage, Benaud was scathing of what had occurred that day:
    "Let me tell you what I think about it, I think it was a disgraceful decision by a captain who got his sums wrong today.
    "I think it should never be permitted to happen again - we keep reading and hearing that the players are under pressure and they're tired and jaded and perhaps their skill is blunted.
    "Well, perhaps they might advance that as an excuse for what happened out there today, (but) not with me they don't. I think it was a very poor performance, one of the worst things I've ever seen done on a cricket field. Goodnight."
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Keith Miller to Ritchie, on bowling to Bradman, Bob


    "I once said to Keith Miller how disappointed I was to have made my debut in the same year as Bradman finished.

    How wonderful it would have been to have watched him play at the SCG in 1940 and then been able to bowl at him on the same ground.

    Nugget looked at me and remarked drily that everyone has one lucky break in a lifetime and that may well have been mine.
    Richie Benaud, writing in his autobiography Over But Not Out"
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    I always thought, just one more summer please Ritchie--
    "How long since you've visited The Good Oil?"

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    Vale Ritchie Benaud: "Marvellous effort - that!"

    He will be sadly missed.

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    Sad loss at good age!!

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    A great loss to Australian and world cricket. A real gentleman who called a spade a spade.

    It would have been good to hear him say 2 for 22 just one more time.
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    A Great Australian.
    R.I.P., Pickles.

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    Another icon gone. RIP Richie, we will miss you. Cricket commentating won't be the same.

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