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World Series Cricket (WSC) was a commercial professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 which was organised by Kerry Packer and his Australian television network, Nine Network. WSC ran in commercial competition to established international cricket.
Coloured clothing, floodlit day-night matches, white balls and drop-in pitches - cricket, as we know it, mostly began during Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket staged between 1977 and 1979.
Packer broke the sports boycott of apartheid South Africa which prevented South African sportsmen from representing their country when he recruited a number of South African cricketers to play on his World Series Cricket Team.
Apr 11, 2020 · Kerry Packer World Series Cricket 1977-79: The controversial tournament ended up contributing a lot to the sport of cricket.
Kerry Packer, the man responsible for World Series Cricket and the explosion of the one-day game, died in Sydney aged 68.
- Male
- January 17, 1938
- Australia
Mar 18, 2009 · When Kerry Packer passed away in 2005 it was a chance for the cricket world to reflect and praise the way the businessman had hauled the sport into the 20th century through World Series Cricket.
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PACKER, KERRY. Revolutionized the game by introducing World Series Cricket. He did not play the game seriously but few people have made a bigger impact on the game of cricket than the late Kerry Packer, the Australian business mogul.
