![]() ![]() Viv Jenkins Collection, Bradman Museum Collection.ġ979 photograph, Kerry Packer and WSC Channel Nine Crew. But the story is not just his and it’s not overly sympathetic to him, as stories about murderers sometimes are. ![]() As a reader, you wait with this condemned man as the minutes tick away. #KERRY PACKER SERIAL#Bradman Museum Collection.ġst Season bat captured by Google ArtCam, 2019. Serial killer Ansel Packer has 12 hours to live. Bradman Museum Collection.ġ977 Australian Test Team poster. Bradman Museum CollectionĬricket Alive magazine 1978. Our manufacturing facilities produce and supply the world with over 15,000 different food. On Loan, Bradman Museum.ġst Season bat courtesy Packer family and Consolidated Press Holdings Ltd.Ĭricketer magazine, April 1978. Kerry is a global leader in taste & nutrition. (L- R) Ray Bright, Kerry O’Keefe, Jeff Thomson, Max Walker, Geoff Dymock, Rick McCosker, Rod Marsh (vice-captain), Mick Malone, Greg Chappell (captain), Gary Cosier, Doug Walters, Richie Robinson, Ian Davis, Len Pascoe, David Hookes, Craig Serjeant, Kim Hughes.Īrt Direction: Monica Donoso, Bradman Museum.įirst White Night Ball. #KERRY PACKER SERIES#Most of the 1977 Australian Test team signed with World Series Cricket, leaving the national side weakened and depleted. Cricket might have received its razzmatazz in the truest form decades later, clear hints around the same were pretty much evident during the World Series Cricket played between 1977-1979. But he’d inherited his toughness from his father, the media magnate Sir Frank Packer and enjoyed being able to repay the cricketers who’d backed him with unflinching loyalty and vastly improved salaries. Kerry Packer World Series Cricket 1977-79: The controversial tournament ended up contributing a lot to the sport of cricket. His venture, the cynics sneered, was a ‘circus’ his players were ‘mercenaries’ he was ‘evil’. Less well remembered is the often virulent media coverage he received during WSC’s early days, but withstood. Players from across the world, including the equivalent of two Australian teams, quickly signed contracts during the mid-1970s to be part of a venture that would run in direct competition with traditional Test cricket. Packer, who wanted the rights to telecast cricket on his Nine Network, tapped into this acrimony. ![]() It is impossible to underestimate how dissatisfied the stars of the ’70s were with the way the game was being run. ![]()
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