The Packer revolution

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Kerry Packer contract cricketers pose with McDonald’s mascot ‘Ronald’ on the first day of the World Series 1977/78. This was the only photo taken of the entire group for the season.
Kerry Packer contract cricketers pose with McDonald’s mascot ‘Ronald’ on the first day of the World Series 1977/78. This was the only photo taken of the entire group for the season.

In this week’s edition of in search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour takes a look at World Series Cricket. In the first of two parts, he traces the developments of 1977.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything …” George Bernard Shaw

In May 1977, Sussex Captain Tony Greig hosted a party, during the rain-affected match between the Australians and Sussex at Hove,