Former Test players Richie Benaud and Charles Macartney have been
selected for the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame at the 2007 Allan Border
Medal ceremony tomorrow.
Benaud will be present on the night while former Australian
captain Ian Chappell will give away the award to Macartney's biographer
Peter Sharpham, a Cricket Australia release said today.
Benaud, a former Australian captain and a famous commentator,
said he was proud and humbled to be named for the honour.
"It is a great privilege to be inducted to the Australian
Cricket Hall of Fame which, in my view, is the most prestigious of its kind
in the sporting world," he said.
"There are 25 people in the Hall of Fame at the moment.
I played cricket with or against eight of them and watched eight others from
various grandstands at the Sydney Cricket Ground." "Of particular
pleasure is that I am listed with Charlie Macartney, one of the greats
of the game. My father Lou's 17th birthday present from his parents way back
in February 1921 was to travel from Coraki to Sydney to watch Warwick Armstrong's
team create a clean sweep of the five-match series with Macartney making a brilliant
170," Benaud said.
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