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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.
Dec 7, 2017 · Kerry Packer during a match between English journalists and Australian journalists. Curious and deferential WSC officers, like an occupying army visiting the deserted bunker of a routed enemy, studied the memorabilia lining their executive room two floors up in the SCG members’ stand. Attentive to the play, they toasted Lillee’s third-ball ...
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.
Oct 10, 2006 · World Series Cricket. In May 1977 the cricketing establishment was shaken to the core with the announcement that Kerry Packer, an Australian media magnate, had signed more than three dozen of the ...
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.
The Packer family company owned a controlling interest in both the Nine Network and the publishing company Australian Consolidated Press, which were later merged to form Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL). Outside Australia, Packer was best known for founding World Series Cricket.
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Dec 27, 2005 · Kerry Packer was the man who dragged cricket kicking and screaming into the modern media era. His World Series instituted gaudy uniforms and replaced red balls with white ones in spotlit day-night ...
