Richie Benaud has been described by Sir Garry Sobers as “a wonderful cricketer and captain”, a “brilliant commentator” and a “good friend”.
Benaud died in Sydney on Friday, aged 84.
“I’d first played against Richie when Australia were in the West Indies in 1955 but it was in the 1960-61 series in Australia that I got to really appreciate what a wonderful cricketer and captain he was,” Sobers, widely acknowledged as the finest all-rounder the game has known, said from his home in Barbados yesterday.
