It won't be the same when Richie goes

Robert Craddock says a summer without Richie Benaud is like Melbourne Cup day without a glass of champagne, or Christmas day without presents. With Benaud announcing he will step down in 2010, Craddock writes a tribute in the Daily Telegraph.

He loves cricket so much that the day he retires from it at the end of next season he will be just eight months short of his 80th birthday. Few people last as long in any profession.

In the same paper Andrew Webster tells of the shrewdest piece of advice Benaud received as a television commentator. "Don't speak unless you can add to the picture on the viewer's screen."