Editing Kerry Packer (section)

==World Series Cricket==
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Outside Australia, Packer was best known for founding [[World Series Cricket]]. In 1977 the Nine Network cricket rights deal led to a confrontation with the [[cricket]] authorities, as top players from several countries rushed to join him at the expense of their international sides.

One of the leaders of the "rebellion" was England captain [[Tony Greig]], who remained a commentator on the Nine Network's payroll until his death in December 2012. Packer's aim was to secure broadcasting rights for Australian cricket, and he was largely successful. In the 1970s the global cricket establishment fiercely opposed Packer in the courts. To counter the establishment, Packer hired the ten best Queen's Counsels in the UK and put them on retainers, stipulating that they were not to take on any additional work during the court case (the sole purpose of which was to deny the establishment the best legal minds to prosecute their case) .{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} When he died he was mourned with a minute's silence at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]] as one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport.

Packer was famously quoted from a 1976 meeting with the [[Australian Cricket Board]], with whom he met to negotiate the rights to televise cricket. According to witnesses, he said: "There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/lillee-goes-in-to-bat-for-packer-but-some-argue-his-methods-werejust-not-cricket/2005/12/27/1135445571481.html |last=Brown |first=Alex |title=Lillee goes in to bat for Packer but some argue his methods were just not |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=28 December 2005 |access-date=31 March 2010}}</ref>