Cricket Outlaws. Inside Kerry Packer's World Series Revolution

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 418 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 worlds leading cricketers for a revolution called World Series Cricket.Suddenly, the gentlemans 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 Cmon Aussie Cmon and supercharged TV coverage led by Richie Benaud.In the middle of this maelstrom was Austin trusted lieutenant to Packer, and confidant to crickets biggest stars.In Cricket Outlaws , Austin shares the real story of the World Series Cricket revolution for the first time - from the inside, in his own words and with vivid first-hand accounts from 48 of the games biggest characters and key players behind the scenes, many speaking publicly on WSC for the first time.

ISBN: 9781760554712