Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
marc71178 said:It was dying a death with little money.
Packer revolutionised it.
If you think this hasn't happened before or since then you're both seriously delusional.Swervy said:the game was dying ....crowds were down and players werent being treated right.
It made the mainstream cricketing authorities take notice, ie gave them a kick up the ****.
The game has always survived, it didn't need WSC to keep it going.
I don't think the players are any better than Lashings' players, but presumably they took it a bit more seriously.It wouldnt have destroyed the game, the game is much bigger than that.
And the standard of play was much higher than the lashings thing,,,,,by a long long way
Anyway, I said the status, not the standard of play, was comparable to a Lashings match - lots of high-calibre players, but playing under the aegis of one mhogle, not the real stuff.
If you ask me had it not been such a dismal failure from an Australian POV, and had it continued for much longer, it would have destroyed real cricket. We already know what damage it did to real cricket in the late 70s, emphasised most by the 1979\80 Ashes.