The Cricket War: The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket by Gideon Haigh (Paperback, 2017)

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One of The Times' 50 Greatest Sports Books In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised 'World Series'. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen. In helmets, under lights, with white balls, and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves. A compelling account of the top-class sporting life, The Cricket War also gives a unique insight into the motives and methods of the man who became Australia's richest, and remained so, until the day he died. It was the end of cricket as we knew it - and the beginning of cricket as we know it. Gideon Haigh has published over thirty books, over twenty of them about cricket. This edition of The Cricket War, Gideon Haigh's first book about cricket originally published in 1993, has been updated with new photographs and a new introduction by the author.

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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781472950635
eBay Product ID (ePID)239936526

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Book TitleThe Cricket War: the Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
AuthorGideon Haigh
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
GenreSports
Number of Pages368 Pages

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Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight314g

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Title_AuthorGideon Haigh
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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