Editing Richie Benaud (section)

==Personal life==
{{Quote box|width=20%|align=right|quote="This is the greatest loss for cricket since the loss of [[Don Bradman]] and for that reason I'm pleased to have offered the Benaud family a state funeral. There would be very few Australians who have not passed a summer in the company of Richie Benaud. He was the accompaniment of an Australian summer, his voice was even more present than the chirping of the [[cicada]]s in our suburbs and towns, and that voice, tragically, is now still."|source= <small>[[Tony Abbott]]<ref name=hinchcliffe/></small>}}

Benaud married Marcia Lavender in 1953 and had two sons, Greg and Jeffery, from this marriage; he divorced Marcia in 1967.<ref name=guardianobit/> In 1967, he married his second wife, Daphne Surfleet, who had worked for the English cricket writer [[E. W. Swanton]].<ref name=guardianobit/> Benaud and Daphne often stayed at their holiday home in [[Beaulieu-sur-Mer]] on the [[French Riviera]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Colangelo|first1=Anthony|title=Bon Voyage, 'Sir Richie': a teacher, a gentleman|url=http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2015/04/10/richie-benaud/|newspaper=The New Daily|access-date=10 April 2015|archive-date=16 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416130112/http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2015/04/10/richie-benaud/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Cussans|first1=Thomas|title=Voice of cricket happy to strengthen his French connection|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4200173/Voice-of-cricket-happy-to-strengthen-his-French-connection.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=10 April 2015|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924171421/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4200173/Voice-of-cricket-happy-to-strengthen-his-French-connection.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 29 October 2008, Benaud's mother, Irene, died, aged 104. He said of her, "She improved my love of vegetables by introducing the phrase, 'You can't go out and play cricket until you have eaten all your vegetables.'"<ref>{{cite news|access-date=24 August 2017|author=Robert Craddock|title=Richie Benaud's mother dies at 104|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=30 October 2008|url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24574151-5006009,00.html|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924171416/https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/?nk=55e99dd42fddff88ad09dd53db7057c2-1600967656|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2013, Benaud crashed his vintage 1965 [[Sunbeam Alpine]] into a wall while driving near his home in [[Coogee, New South Wales|Coogee]], a beachside suburb in Sydney's east. He sustained a cracked [[sternum]] and shoulder injuries. Slow recovery meant he was unable to commentate for Australia's Channel Nine during the [[2013–14 Ashes series]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/richie-benaud-injured-in-car-accident-20131024-2w3l5.html|work=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Richie Benaud injured in car accident|date=24 October 2013|first=Chris|last=Barrett|access-date=10 April 2015|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924171419/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/richie-benaud-injured-in-car-accident-20131024-2w3l5.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Benaud had last handed "[[Baggy green]]" caps to [[Simon Katich]] and [[Mitchell Starc]] when they made their Test debuts. Benaud's own was lost early in his Test career, and former captain—now commentator and the Director of [[Cricket Australia]], [[Mark Taylor (cricketer)|Mark Taylor]]—was to present a replacement cap to him at the semi-final of the [[2015 Cricket World Cup]] between Australia and India at the SCG, but Benaud was too unwell to attend, and when the cap arrived at [[Nine's Wide World of Sports|Channel 9]] headquarters, it was the day before Benaud died. It was presented to his wife.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9v88DsP8_s |title=Richie Benaud – A Marvellous Life 1930–2015 Full Episode |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=1 January 2016 |archive-date=14 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314033122/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9v88DsP8_s |url-status=live }}</ref>