Cricket Outlaws: Inside Kerry Packer's World Series Revolution
Cricket Outlaws: Inside Kerry Packer's World Series Revolution by Austin Robertson
English | November 14th, 2017 | ISBN: 1760557757 | 367 Pages | EPUB | 12.07 MB
English | November 14th, 2017 | ISBN: 1760557757 | 367 Pages | EPUB | 12.07 MB
In the summer of 1977-78 Kerry Packer changed professional sport forever.
Under a cloak of secrecy, the Aussie tycoon - together with maverick TV comics Paul Hogan and John 'strop' Cornell, elite players Dennis Lillee, Tony Greig and Ian Chappell, and retired footy hero Austin Robertson - signed up 35 of the world's leading cricketers for a revolution called 'World Series Cricket'.
Suddenly, the gentleman's game had four outlaw teams playing 'Supertests' and 50-over games at night under lights in crash helmets, using white balls and wearing coloured clothing. Slowly, then in a torrent, fans fell under the spell of day-night cricket airwaves jingling to 'C'mon Aussie C'mon' and supercharged TV coverage led by Richie Benaud.
In the middle of this maelstrom was Austin Robertson: trusted lieutenant to Packer, and confidant to cricket's biggest stars.
In Cricket Outlaws, Austin shares the real story of the Worls Series Cricket revolution for the first time - from the inside, in his own words and with vivid first-hand accounts from 48 of the game's biggest characters and key players behind the scenes, many speaking publicly on WSC for the first time.
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