The Man Who Stole A Sport

In 1977, cricket’s most powerful men made one mistake: they told Kerry Packer no.What followed was one of the most audacious takeovers in sporting history.Players were signed in secret. National heroes became outlaws. Careers were put on the line. The battle spilled into the High Court. And a sport built on more than a century of tradition was dragged, kicking and screaming, into a new era.This isn’t really a story about cricket. It’s about money, television, power, and what happens when the people running a sport fail to understand what it’s actually worth.The Man Who Stole a Sport is the extraordinary story of Kerry Packer, the rebel players who risked everything, and the two-year war that changed professional sport forever.