Call it cream, bone, white, off-white, ivory, or beige, but Richie Benaud's sports jacket has become almost as recognisable as the Blundstone boot or Akubra hat as an Australian fashion icon.

That Richie Benaud was a magnificent cricketer ... Most famously, of course, was the beige jacket. But was it really beige, or was it – as Richie's famed imitator The 12th Man, put it ...

Has there been a sports commentator in the world more impersonated than Richie Benaud? His beige jacket. His refined appearance. His dulcet, distinctive voice and his laconic wit provided Billy ...

It's a Weird World of Sport watching the Ashes without seeing or hearing Richie Benaud ... off-white, ivory or beige jacket. And all the niggling aggro has been on the field, whereas I prefer ...

Expression serious, gaze intense, and concentration fixed - Richie Benaud is at work • Mark ... his gaze intense and his concentration fixed. The beige jacket is hung up, and reading glasses ...

This is the Richie Benaud that existed before the beige jacket, the white hair and the utterances of “marvellous” - apart from a memorable performance in a TV commercial for Milo, in which his ...

IT was always my hope that Richie would get a standing ovation at every Test ground in Australia whenever he announced his intention to hang up the 50 Shades of Beige jacket once and for all.

Richie Benaud, the voice and face of ... and usually resplendent in a trademark cream jacket (which varied into off-white, white, bone, ivory or beige), Benaud was widely respected for the breadth ...

Call it cream, bone, white, off-white, ivory, or beige, but Richie Benaud's sports jacket has become almost as recognisable as the Blundstone boot or Akubra hat as an Australian fashion icon.