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'A HUMBLE man but a great man - Tasmania's cricket community has joined in paying its respects to legendary former Australian captain and commentator Richie Benaud...'
'He gave the Anzacs their name, popularised the term Digger, and was one of the few Brits on the battlefield the Aussies respected, particularly after he finally got them off the Gallipoli peninsula without a single loss of life...'
'Superlatives flowed from around the world as Richie Benaud was remembered as an Australia treasure, sporting icon and voice of cricket after his death yesterday, aged 84.'
'Richie Benaud's pause. It was not merely pregnant. It was the void into which the less thoughtful, the less phlegmatic, the less articulate would plunge. It was also worth the wait...'
