Forever Young

I never knew him as a player, but it is the way I will remember him.

Potrait of a Legend as a Young Man

Watching and listening to Ritchie Benaud at the Adelaide Test brought home how old the man is getting.

Icons are supposed to have a bit of age about them but elite sportsman deserve to be remembered as they were in their prime. This old image captures a fair bit of what we were to see over the next 40 or 50 years.

Direct, eye to eye opinion.

Thank God For Ritchie

Listening to The Greig, The Bill et al making apologies for poor play drives me nuts, so thank the Lord there is Ritchie who is there to call a dropped catch a dropped catch. He did not seem convinced that Ponting spilled a relatively straight forward slip catch because "the ball was going too fast".