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The cricket war : the inside story of Kerry Packer's World Cricket Series

It was the end of cricket as we knew it - and the beginning of cricket as we know it. In May 1977, the cricket world woke to discover that a businessman called Kerry Packer had signed 35 international players for his own televised World Series Cricket. This title is an account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen.
Print Book, English, 2008
Rev. ed. ; 30th anniversary ed
Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 2008
History
xii, 400 pages ; 24 cm
9780522854756, 0522854753
359673550
This ed. originally published: 2007