The Establishment Boys: The other side of Kerry Packer’s cricket revolution by Barry Nicholls

Monday 9 May 1977 was an historic moment for world cricket. It was the day Kerry Packer announced he’d bought the cream of Australia’s cricketing talent, to play in his own private competition.  Over the next two years, the game became bitterly divided between two parallel competitions: the rock-star realm of Packer’s World Series Cricket and traditional Test cricket, now depicted as stodgy and obsolete. While Packer and his glamorous brigade won the war, Test cricket survived due to those who carried the Australian banner for the game: younger, poorly paid men representing their country.  They became known as ‘the establishment boys’.  Many of their names have been forgotten and their deeds lost in the footnotes of Australian cricket history.  It is time to tell their story.

Paperback, 2015 (rev 2021), 273 pp

ISBN: 9781743058589

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Monday 9 May 1977 was an historic moment for world cricket. It was the day Kerry Packer announced he’d bought the cream of Australia’s cricketing talent, to play in his own private competition.  Over the next two years, the game became bitterly divided between two parallel competitions: the rock-star realm of Packer’s World Series Cricket and traditional Test cricket, now depicted as stodgy and obsolete. While Packer and his glamorous brigade won the war, Test cricket survived due to those who carried the Australian banner for the game: younger, poorly paid men representing their country.  They became known as ‘the establishment boys’.  Many of their names have been forgotten and their deeds lost in the footnotes of Australian cricket history.  It is time to tell their story.

Paperback, 2015 (rev 2021), 273 pp

ISBN: 9781743058589

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Weight .62 kg
Dimensions 23.5 × 15.5 cm

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