Kerry Packer's 1970s revolution helped bring one-day cricket to the world - and threatened to split the game in two. Twenty-five years ago this week, Packer, an Australian media mogul, announced he ...

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How Australia’s richest man disrupted cricket - and amateur sport - in this country forever, and created professional sport as we know it.

Australian media mogul Kerry Packer fought a cricket war by secretly signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to form a breakaway tournament.

Tony Greig, once one of England's dazzling boys, began his MCC Spirit of Cricket / Cowdrey Lecture on Tuesday night with a reluctant paraphrase of his part in World Series Cricket, 35 years after it ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Floodlights, fireworks and a spectacular Sydney sunset heralded both a triumph for Kerry Packer and his rebel World Series Cricket (WSC) and the birth of the modern one-day game.

Tributes are flooding in around the cricket world after the deaths of former England captain Mike Smith and Aussie ...