An anti-cricketer’s tribute to Richie Benaud, a cricketing great who radiated televisual decency
Cricket-captain-turned-cricket-commentator Richie Benaud died in Sydney this morning. He would have been 85 next October. That last pair of sentences contains, believe it or not, two of the most crucial facts in modern Australian history. As of the last (2011) census, approximately 24 million people lived in Australia. It is a fair bet that (whatever