EPISODE
Howzat! Kerry Packers War - Season 1
Howzat! Kerry Packer's War is how legendary media mogul Kerry Packer fought a cricket war by secretly signing up 50 of the world’s greatest players to form a breakaway tournament. Packer took on the Australian Cricket Board and MCCC in a war over TV rights and threw the cricket world into turmoil by creating ‘World Series Cricket’. He knew the players, who had been underpaid for years, were on the point of rebellion against the cricket authorities. His rebel games clashed head-on with official test matches, and the war was on. Polishing an idea by John Cornell, Packer fought a bitter two-year battle against the cricket establishment doing its best to protect the hundred-year legacy of pride in the traditional nature of the poorly paid game. The result changed cricket forever.
9 June 1949, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK [now North Down District, Northern Ireland, UK]
April 9, 1974 in Australia
18 March 1980, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
31 January 1950, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
16 August 1976, Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia
1 October 1988, Johannesburg, South Africa
17 August 1958, Huddersfield, England, UK
18 February 1953, Sydney, Australia
