article_snippet.sent: Glowing tributes were paid yesterday to cricketing legend Richie Benaud, after Richie Benaud death at 84 from skin cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Retiring as a player in 1964, Richie Benaud Lord’s masterful analysis was universally revered.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud will not be returning to England next summer to sustain Richie Benaud pre-eminence as cricket’s finest commentator.
article_snippet.sent: Fortunately, Richie Benaud does not leave us without a word or several of advice to those who seek to emulate Richie Benaud success, particularly retired players whose agents deem whose agents instantly equipped to pick up a microphone and irritate us with an effluent of Tower of Babel verbiage.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud does so in a valedictory book which is an encyclopaedia of broadcasting wisdom.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud names no names.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud is too polite for that.
article_snippet.sent: At 74, Richie Benaud is still as fit as a flea, the result of a lifestyle as measured as Richie Benaud commentating.
article_snippet.sent: Yes, there are rare occasions when Richie Benaud will let down Richie Benaud hair with the rest of us, but when serious business is afoot Richie Benaud will rise from an increasingly raucous dinner party, check Richie Benaud watch that it is exactly 10pm and announce:
article_snippet.sent: At sunrise next morning, Richie Benaud and even Daphne, will be striding out on he and Daphne, his elegant and unfailingly supportive English wife three-mile constitutional.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud is meticulous in all things.
article_snippet.sent: On TV commentary days, even Daphne is not allowed to iron Richie Benaud shirts.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud presses his shirts Richie Benaud.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud is a food faddist, preparing Richie Benaud Test match lunch boxes at home to be certain of what Richie Benaud is eating.
article_snippet.sent: Once, Richie Benaud took a week-long course in Italy to learn how to cook pasta to perfection.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud desks at Richie Benaud homes in London, South of France and Sydney are polished plateaux of precision, Richie Benaud reference-book shelves indexed for instant reach.
article_snippet.sent: there is a gorgeous picture of even Daphne celebrating even Daphne 100th birthday with Richie and Richie Test cricketer brother John in the book — that launched Richie into Richie dual career life.
article_snippet.sent: All of seven years before Richie Benaud retired from cricket, Richie Benaud wondered if there could be a distant future in the communication industry.
article_snippet.sent: There was little doubt about that since Richie Benaud had been a young crime reporter on a Sydney newspaper, where sub-editors ruthlessly deleted from Richie Benaud copy any flowery phrases which Richie Benaud thought rather good but were irrelevant to the story.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud proceeded otherwise.
article_snippet.sent: At Richie Benaud own expense Richie Benaud moved from the Kensington Palace Hotel into a cramped lower ground room in the RAC club in Pall Mall and took a BBC television training course, alongside directors, commentators, even audiences, to learn how television worked.
article_snippet.sent: Richie Benaud trailed Peter O’Sullevan at Newbury and Richie Benaud studied the commentating techniques of Henry Longhurst on golf and Dan Maskell on tennis.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Richie Benaud now says: ‘