I was fortunate to have grown up as a 10 year old with WSC and as I said to my 9 yr old and her friend tonight, I have been listening to that man since I was their age.
The Bill and Tony banter is gone forever.
A very sad day.
I lived through the WSC days as a kid teenager and there was an air of atmosphere back in those days with Richie wetting himself over the points table summer after summer & the TV and crowds came and viewed the game. Maccas had the posters of the team and the whole country gave a care over the...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65_spUU05s
May have been posted before but the final one minute is pure Richie Benaud at his best, the most polite criticism he could muster...GOLD.
gaso
Had mine for the Adelaide Test and it was a fizzer but these past two days the pair of them have had a bit to say....maybe 6-8 times across Sat-Sun for the Perth Test.
My 3 yr old thinks they are fantastic! (6ft up off the floor where they are out of reach.)
Gaso
Are these like chalk and cheese?
When Tubby started commentating a few years back I thought he struggled, but after listening to him and Heals these past five days they work very well as a team with intelligent comments.
The other set...are they past their use by date? Bill's okay when the...
Yep I am the biggest cricket TV fool in Australia. I thought he was our 'own', but hearing him commentate in this series has banished my foolishness for six. He is an actor, pretends to admire the great Aussie team, then as soon as he is out of the country the knives come out.
All hail Bill...
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