article_snippet.sent: Benaud, who hadn't returned to Richie Benaud commentary job for the Nine Network following a car accident in October 2013 in which Richie Benaud suffered serious injuries, had looked increasingly frail and had lost weight.
article_snippet.sent: he had been driving he beloved car - a 1963 Sunbeam Alpine - back from hitting practice golf balls at the Australian Golf Club in Sydney when he lost control and hit a parked car
article_snippet.sent: he was hospitalised with shoulder, spinal and chest injuries and a broken sternum.
article_snippet.sent: Randwick racecourse in 2007, said that following a serious car crash and then treatment for skin cancer he and Daphne had been walking for '40 minutes a day' to ease he back to good health in the hope he could return to the commentary box .
article_snippet.sent: he said he was still recovering from the car accident injuries which included two fractured vertebrae.
article_snippet.sent: However, he expressed the belief he would make a return to cover the fourth Test against India at the SCG in Sydney, and had been out walking with he beloved wife Daphne every morning in an effort to regain he health.
highlights_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud hope to get fit enough to return to the commentary box but never did .