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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. World Series Cricket drastically changed the nature of cricket, and its ...
- 1977
- Kerry Packer
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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 ...
Kerry Packer. Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer AC (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. [2] The Packer family company owned a controlling interest in both the Nine Network and the publishing company Australian ...
- Ellerston, New South Wales, Australia
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Kerry Packer World Series Cricket 1977-79. Kerry Packer was an Australia Media tycoon whose family owned a controlling interest in the Nine Television Network (commonly known as Channel Nine). Australian Cricket Board (ACB) refusing Nine Network’s bid to gain exclusive Television rights for Australia’s Test matches in 1976 formed a primary ...
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. In ...
May 2, 2017 · The World Series Cricket story first broke 40 years ago this week, in early May 1977, after it was leaked to Ian Wooldridge and the Daily Mail. “Cricket ‘Circus’ Threat to Test Matches ...
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.
