RICHIE WOULD’VE BEEN HORRIFIED BY ALL THIS

Peter Hayter muses on what that late, great Australian cricket man would have made of this latest controversy

What a mess: It’s been a week to forget for cricket, and one Richie Benaud would not have been proud of, inset
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Aside from the obvious truth that the game misses him terribly, in these of all times there is a more specific reason to remember the passing of Richie Benaud, three years ago next month, with regret.
For all that every fibre of their former captain and peerless TV commentator twitched pursuit of his team winning...

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