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Title: The Cricket War
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
Author: Gideon Haigh
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1472950631
EAN: 9781472950635
ISBN: 9781472950635
Publisher: Wisden
Genre: Sports & Hobbies
Release Date: 02/11/2017
Description: One of The Times' 50 Greatest Sports BooksIn 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Weight: 314g
Language: English
Release Year: 2017

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