Famous Cricketers No 100 - Richie Benaud

Benaud has also played six-a-side cricket on occasion, and though he found it interesting, it was never really something he expected to catch on. With typical dry humour he notes “There always seemed to be something missing, like five players” Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 255. Commonwealth XI v Central Zone, Sargodha, March 6, 7, 8 (Commonwealth XI won by nine wickets) * (4) lbw b Niaz Ahmed 71 285-9d 8 4 10 2 Javed Bhatti lbw 120 Abdur Rauf b did not bat - 46-1 18 5 29 5 Aftab Gul b 209 Masood Akhtar st J.T.Murray Sherandaz Khan lbw Niaz Ahmed c B.W.Luckhurst Abdul Wahab b 256. Commonwealth XI v Pakistan Universities, Lahore, March 11, 12, 13 (Commonwealth XI won by five wickets) * did not bat - 304-2d 16 3 40 1 Talat Lodhi lbw 267-7d (4) c and b Salahuddin 59 187-5 13 2 47 2 Masood Akhtar st Ijaz Hussain 223-9d Asif Masood b 257. Commonwealth XI v BCCP XI, Lahore, March 15, 16, 17, 18 (Match drawn) * (6) c Ghulam Abbas b Saleem Altaf 55 304-7d 14 3 51 0 381-7d 1 (6) c Ghulam Abbas b Intikhab Alam 89 341-6d - - - - 226-7d 1 258. Commonwealth XI v North Zone, Peshawar, March 20, 21, 22 (Commonwealth XI won by 52 runs) * (7) b S.K.Durrani 2 208 188-6d did not bat - 139-2d 107 259. Commonwealth XI v Pakistan, Karachi, March 29, 30, 31, April 1 (Match drawn) * did not bat - 301-3d - - - - 326-7d 1 (7) c Nasim-ul-Ghani b Saleem Altaf 11 273-8d 3 2 2 0 197-8 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Other matches 5 6 0 287 89 47.83 - 4 4 Career 259 365 44 11719 187 36.50 23 61 254 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Other matches (6b) 72 19 179 10 5-29 17.90 1 - Career (8b) 4976.2 1119 } 23370 945 7-18 24.73 56 9 (6b) 3439.1 1112 64