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	World Series Cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		World Series Cricket (WSC) was a professional cricket competition from 1977 to 1979, set up by Kerry Packer in opposition to the "official" international competition.
		The series had its genesis through a combination of two main factors - the fact that players were not paid sufficient amounts to make a living from cricket, and that Packer wished to secure the exclusive broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, then held by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
		After two seasons of WSC, a deal was signed between the ACB and Packer, with the Nine network getting broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, the players becoming paid professionals, and the introduction of a regular one-day international series featuring the innovations of WSC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Series_Cricket (511 words)

	Encyclopedia article: World Series Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		World Series Cricket (WSC) was a professional cricket (A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs) competition from 1977 to 1979, set up by Kerry Packer (additional info and facts about Kerry Packer) in opposition to the "official" international competition.
		Shut out of traditional cricket venues, games were organised at Australian Rules football (additional info and facts about Australian Rules football) venues like VFL Park (additional info and facts about VFL Park) and various showgrounds, using "drop-in" pitches.
		After two seasons of WSC, a deal was signed between the ACB and Packer, with the Nine network (additional info and facts about Nine network) getting broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, the players becoming paid professionals, and the introduction of a regular one-day international series featuring the innovations of WSC.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/world_series_cricket.htm (377 words)

	History of cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cricket's most likely birthplace is the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex.
		Cricket must have had agreed rules, subject to local variations, for a long time but the earliest known Laws were ratified in 1744.
		China may also be a source of future cricket development, with the Chinese government announcing plans in 2004 to develop the sport—almost unknown in China—with the goal of qualifying for the World Cup by 2019.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_cricket (5124 words)

	World Series
		In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League.
		The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff).
		The 1904 Series was supposed to be between the AL's Boston Pilgrims and the NL's New York Giants.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/world_series.html (3974 words)

	Encyclopedia: World Series Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By the end of the 17th century, cricket had progressed to the point where it was ready to break its bounds as a village pastime and enter the age of great matches.
		In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League.
		The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the World Series Trophy, as well as World Series rings.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/World-Series-Cricket (1392 words)

	World Series - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the World Series Trophy.
		The 2004 World Series was played from October 23 until October 27, between the National League champion St.
		The 1904 Series was supposed to be between the AL's Boston Americans and the NL's New York Giants.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /world_series.htm (4413 words)

	World Series Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		World Series Cricket (WSC) was a professional cricket competition from 1977 to 1979, set up by Kerry Packer in opposition to the "official"international competition.
		The series had its genesis through a combination of two main factors - the fact that players were not paid sufficient amountsto make a living from cricket, and that Packer wished to secure the exclusive broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, thenheld by the AustralianBroadcasting Corporation.
		After two seasons of WSC, a deal was signed between the ACB and Packer, with the Nine network getting broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, the players becoming paid professionals, andthe introduction of a regular one-day international series featuring the innovations of WSC.
	www.therfcc.org /world-series-cricket-138586.html (394 words)

	Station Information - World Series Cricket
		World Series Cricket was a professional cricket competition of the late 1970s set up by Kerry Packer in opposition to the "official" international competition.
		The series had its genesis through a combination of two main factors--the fact that players were not paid sufficient amounts to make a living from cricket, and that Packer wished to secure the exclusive broadcasting rights to Australian cricket.
		Shut out of traditional cricket venues, games were organised at Australian Rules football venues like Waverley Park and various showgrounds, using "drop-in" pitches.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/world_series_cricket.html (390 words)

	Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cricket is played by two teams of eleven on a level, closely cut oval “pitch” preferably measuring about 525 ft (160 m) by about 550 ft (170 m).
		While his batting ranks him among the best in the world, he is also a part-time bowler and has played a crucial role as a leg spinner who tends to break partnerships.
		He continues to perform well under the massive weight of expectation of hundreds of millions of cricket followers, in India and around the world, and most recently was named Player Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
	www.spatial.maine.edu /~kapoor/Sport/Cricket.htm (1419 words)

	World Series gone, but can't be forgotten - theage.com.au
		World Series pioneered three-cornered tournaments, night cricket, floodlights, coloured clothing, coloured balls, drop-in pitches, on-field microphones, multitudinous camera angles, even prototypical helmets.
		Statistical records are supposed to stand as their own bald and mute testament to the happenings of the day, not pass through a filter of moral and philosophical judgements; otherwise, all of Hansie Cronje's feats would by now have been expunged.
		World Series, though affronting to many in its time, was about upheaval within cricket, then as now a sport.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/30/1054177727227.html (871 words)

	Ubersportingpundit: Why Kerry Packer is responsible for Australia owing India three One Day Internationals.
		The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) took a hardline approach, the two organisations went to head with one another for a season in which Packer achieved only limited success, having learned from this Packer innovated dramatically for the second season of one day cricket, and in doing so essentially invented modern cricket.
		"WSC, execrated at the time as the end of cricket as we knew it, looms in hindsight as the beginning of cricket as we know it." I quote this because that is an exceptionally good way of putting it.
		Theoretically, the one day series that would have been played along with the Australian test tour of India next season was being brought forwards, and that tour would also be extended to four tests.
	www.ubersportingpundit.com /archives/004803.html (1510 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Sports Talk \| Forum \| World Series Cricket
		The players selected for the World Series were the best in their respective countries, and to compete against those players you had to be at that level.
		As Dennis said earlier, the fact that you were recognised as one of the best cricketers in the world was a great satisfaction in itself, and on top of that we were getting paid more than if were playing for our county or country.
		Cricket was never marketed properly back then, and the administrators were satisfied to leave things as they were.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/sports_talk/forum/1969707.stm (1537 words)

	Encyclopedia: World Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, the culmination of the sport's postseason each October.
		The modern World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exceptions of 1904 and 1994.
		The 1908 World Series matched the defending champion Chicago Cubs against the Detroit Tigers in a rematch of the 1907 Series.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/World-Series (1246 words)

	Read about World Series Cricket at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research World Series Cricket and learn about World ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The series had its genesis through a combination of two main factors - the fact that players were not paid sufficient amounts to make a living from cricket, and that Packer wished to secure the exclusive broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, then held by the
		Nine network getting broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, the players becoming paid professionals, and the introduction of a regular one-day international series featuring the innovations of WSC.
		Test cricket, is still played around the world.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/World_Series_Cricket (429 words)

	World Series Cricket
		World Series Cricket featured players in coloured uniforms, white balls, batting and fielding restrictions, day/night games under lights, motorcycle helmets, body armour and best of all, the fans got a result before leaving the ground.
		The cricket purists were outraged and in England, the concept was criticised as a "Stupid pyjama game".
		Cricket is such a slow game that a rationalist would presume it could only appeal to a Jamaican on valium.
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	WORLD SERIES CRICKET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first WSC game, a "Supertest" featuring an Australian eleven versus the rest of the world, began at VFL Park on 2 December 1977.
		However, when World Series Cricket one-day matches began, featuring matches under lights, players wearing coloured clothing, and a white ball, crowds arrived in droves and Packer's experiment began to succeed.
		After two seasons of WSC, a deal was signed between the Australian Cricket Board and Packer, with the Nine Network getting broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, the players becoming paid professionals, and the introduction of a regular one-day international series featuring the innovations of WSC.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/WORLD+SERIES+CRICKET (411 words)

	ABC Sport - Cricket World Cup - One-day cricket's tactical evolution
		One-day cricket, introduced to England in the previous year with the Gillette Cup knockout tournament, was an altogether more suitable arena for Dexter to apply his original mind.
		Modern one-day cricket was developed during World Series Cricket, the breakaway tournament staged by media entrepreneur Kerry Packer in 1978-79.
		Australia, the current world champions, play the bulk of their admittedly exceptional Test side in one-day cricket and Bobby Simpson, coach of the team who won the 1987 World Cup, has always maintained that the fundamentals of both games are the same.
	www.abc.net.au /cricket/items/s772864.htm (1139 words)

	DM's Explanation of Cricket - History of Cricket
		Following the excitement and interest of the Centenary Test in March, 1977, the cricket world was about to be shaken to it foundations and changed forever.
		He would gather the best players in the world by offering them salaries well above what they were receiving by playing for their countries, paid for out of gate receipts and the money he would make by broadcasting the matches on his network.
		No WSC matches are considered as official matches for the purposes of statistics relating to Tests, one-day internationals, or first class records.
	www.dangermouse.net /cricket/history/worldseries.html (726 words)

	Cricket's Journeymen quiz
		In 1978, he was signed as an 'Australian' by Kerry Packer to play World Series Cricket.
		He played First Class cricket for Hampshire and was qualified to play for England, but West Indies picked him in 1974, and never looked back.
		He made his Test debut for England in 1972, and became English captain in 1975.He was one of the prime movers of World Series Cricket, and after two seasons as 'Rest of the World' captain, moved to Australia, where he makes his living as a commentator.
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	BBC SPORT \| CRICKET \| Growing up with Packer
		Growing up as a cricket-loving youngster in Perth, Western Australia, the innovation of World Series cricket added a new dimension to the backyard Test matches that dominated every waking moment in the Langer household.
		I figured that if I was to become an international cricket star in the future I would have to build myself up to become a giant figure like Rob had described.
		There is no doubt in my mind that World Series Cricket left an indelible mark on my desire to play international cricket, perhaps it was the first seed planted in my heart and mind that initiated the dream to be a cricket star.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/1972942.stm (603 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sydney: Former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell says Sir Donald Bradman’s unwillingness to pay players better and improve conditions was a major factor behind the world series cricket rebellion.
		Chappell was coaxed out of retirement to lead Australian businessman Kerry Packer’s rebel cricket series from 1977 to 1979 as Packer sought to gain exclusive international coverage for his nine television network.
		“Bradman to me has as much to do with the starting of world series cricket as anybody because I got the feeling Bradman treated the Board money as though it was almost his own money,” Chappell says in a TV documentary.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1021128/asp/sports/story_1426402.asp (201 words)

	www.cric8.com - cricket, live cricket, live cricket score, live cricket scores, cricket live score, cricket live ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gilchrist said the three one-day games and the six-day Test formed a "wonderful" series, but thought it was wrong for the matches to count in players' records when those of World Series Cricket in the 1970s missed out.
		Lillee was credited with 355 Test wickets from 70 matches, but he claimed another 24 victims against the Rest of the World in 1971-72 and 79 in World Series Cricket, taking his overall tally to 458.
		Australia open the Super Series with the first ODI on Wednesday and Gilchrist said interest in the series was "amazing" following the Ashes.
	www.cric8.com /news.asp?N05515 (439 words)

	Learn All About world Series Cricket Throughout Our Site... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Don't knock-in the back of the cricket bat.After you have done this gradually increase the force with which you hit the bat, making sure you systematically cover all of the face of the bat.
		THOUGH ending on a sour note for the senior cricket team after a disastrous mini World Cup in Ireland in July, the youngsters have brought a glimmer of hope to the fans after the U-19 team qualified to play at the 2007 World Cup in Sri Lanka.
		Cricket at large is likely to suffer in the wake of an Indian government order preventing exclsuive cricket broadcasts.
	www.online-cricket-resources.com /directory/world-series-cricket.html (731 words)

	Ganguly suggests a shortened Tri-series Down Under : Cricket News : IndiaExpress.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Originally called the World Series Cricket, it gave cricket coloured clothing and white balls under lights.
		The 2003 World Cup was a very successful one but to do it against Australia in Australia - it's got to be the best so far.
		Ganguly realizes his team has been run close by Australia in the one-day series but predicts it is going to be the pattern of the future games between two sides.
	www.indiaexpress.com /news/sports/cricket/20040201-1.html (737 words)

	CricketWorld.com
		The future of Headingley cricket ground is assured after Leeds City Council agreed to assist in the purchase of the ground.
		The ICC have announced the umpires and match referees that will officiate at the ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup 2006, to be staged in Sri Lanka in February.
		Sri Lanka have announced a 16-man squad for the upcoming one-day series in New Zealand and the Triangular series in Australia.
	www.cricketworld.com (461 words)

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