World Series Cricket (ABC). After the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) refused to accept Channel Nine's bid to gain exclusive television rights to Australia's Test matches in 1976, Packer set up his own series by secretly signing agreements with leading Australian, English, Pakistani, South African and West Indian players, most notably England captain Tony Greig, West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, Australian captain Greg Chappell, future Pakistani captain Imran Khan and former Australian Captain Ian Chappell. Packer was aided by businessmen John Cornell and Austin Robertson, both of whom were involved with the initial setup and administration of the series. In the mid-1970s, the Australian
Alan Lee (cricket writer) former England cricketer Sarah Potter. Alan Lee (cricket writer) Alan Lee (1954 – 19 December 2015) was a prolific British writer and author on cricket and horse racing. He was the cricket correspondent at "The Times" from 1988 to 1999, and from 1999, the horse-racing correspondent. He authored many books on cricket, including biographies, co-written with the subjects, of David Lloyd, David Gower and Tony Greig. In the field of racing, he wrote a 2002 biography of the jockey Richard Johnson. In 2001, Lee won the SJA Sports Writer of the Year and the Racing Journalist of the Year awards.