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I was there: Kerry Packer

May 1977 - Flamboyant Australian billionaire Kerry Packer launched a secret plan to sign up the world's best players for his own breakaway cricket tournament: World Series Cricket

We take a look back to May 1977 - when the cricketing world was turned on its head by the flamboyant Australian billionaire Kerry Packer. After failing to get the TV rights he desperately wanted, he launched a secret plan to sign up the world's best players for his own breakaway tournament: World Series Cricket

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