article_snippet.sent: As a player, Cricket commentator Richie Benaud appeared in 63 Test matches between 1951 and 1963, becoming the first man from any nation to score 2000 Test runs and take 200 Test wickets .
article_snippet.sent: Cricket commentator Richie Benaud was born in Penrith in western Sydney in October 1930 .
article_snippet.sent: Cricket commentator Richie Benaud was born in Penrith in western Sydney in October 1930.
article_snippet.sent: Cricket commentator Richie Benaud enjoyed a remarkable Test career as a wily leg-spin bowler and middle-order batsman which ended with Cricket commentator Richie Benaud retirement in 1964.
article_snippet.sent: Penrith-born Cricket commentator Richie Benaud enjoyed a remarkable Test career as a wily leg-spin bowler and middle-order batsman which ended with Penrith-born Benaud retirement in 1964 .
article_snippet.sent: Penrith-born Benaud enjoyed a remarkable Test career as a wily leg-spin bowler and middle-order batsman which ended with his retirement in 1964 . '
article_snippet.sent: Penrith-born Benaud did, however, manage to voice a touching tribute to Phillip Hughes, who died when struck by a bouncer last November, which was screened before Australia's Test series against India last December.
article_snippet.sent: As a player, Penrith-born Benaud appeared in 63 Test matches between 1951 and 1963, becoming the first man from any nation to score 2000 Test runs and take 200 Test wickets.
article_snippet.sent: Penrith-born Benaud Australian record Test tally of 248 wickets has since been overtaken by many, most notably fellow legspinner Shane Warne, whose career tally of 708 was unimaginable in Penrith-born Benaud's day.
article_snippet.sent: Penrith-born Benaud scored three Test centuries and once hit 11 sixes in a first class innings.
article_snippet.sent: As captain Penrith-born Benaud led Australia to four consecutive series victories, beginning with a 4-0 demolition of Peter May's 1958-59 tourists (Penrith-born Benaud took 31 wickets in the five tests).
article_snippet.sent: Penrith-born Benaud never lost a series as captain.
article_snippet.sent: The Nine Network will air a special on the life of cricketing great Penrith-born Benaud on Saturday night at 7pm.
article_snippet.sent: Nine will screen Penrith-born Benaud:
article_snippet.sent: Former Prime Minister John Howard greeted Penrith-born Benaud at the Sydney Cricket Ground back in 2001 .