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Oct 7, 2026
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
... which we'll discuss, um, a little bit later on.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
Um, but the 10 that we're discussing today, Bodyline, The D'Oliveira Affair, George Davis is innocent, World Series Cricket, Mike Gatting and Shakur Rana, dirt in the pocket, Hansie Cronje, the forfeited test, spot fixing, and Sandpapergate.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
You can read more about all of those on the BBC Sport website and app, but we are gonna reveal the results starting now.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
And in 10th place, voted, uh, to number 10, was the forfeited test of 2006.
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Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
first.Um, and that is number eight on the list of cricket's, Test cricket's biggest scandals.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
An Ashes scandal, and this is another one that came in seventh that had Ashes implications.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
World Series Cricket in the mid-1970s when Kerry Packer wanted to boost the ratings of his Channel 9 TV network with some live sports.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
He tried to get the rights to show Australian cricket.
Danielle LongmoreGUEST
So it's, uh, it's just a different way of looking at it.
Russel HowcroftHOST
So Doctor, you can't help it but, you know, my mind always goes to 19, 1970s watching World Series Cricket and all the kids looked really skinny.
Russel HowcroftHOST
So what's happened since then?
Danielle LongmoreGUEST
Yeah.
Ian HealyHOST
Hey, Graham Yallop turns 76 today.
Ian HealyHOST
A man who played 39 tests, came to his own as captain of Australia when the World Series Cricket was on.
Corey ParkerHOST
Mm.
Ian HealyHOST
And Tim Minchin.
Rob McKnightGUEST
Mm.
John StanleyHOST
Uh, "There's a story about David Hooks wanted to get out of his contract with World Series Cricket.
John StanleyHOST
Boss wouldn't let him have leave for cricket.
John StanleyHOST
Cr- apparently Packer bought the company and David Hooks got his leave."
Hunter FujakGUEST
Certainly in the past 50 years, and particularly probably the last 35 years, we've seen a really rapid professionalization of sport.
Hunter FujakGUEST
You know, we can think of World Series Cricket around the same time.
Hunter FujakGUEST
'77 as kind of being the starting point of the s- the professional corporatization of sport.
Hunter FujakGUEST
And so with that, we've gotten more sophisticated over time in terms of how we deliver sport events in lots of different ways.
Matt SlaterGUEST
That was a breakaway league that has worked, um, by and large.
Matt SlaterGUEST
Um, World Series Cricket was another one that was often talked about at the time.
Matt SlaterGUEST
That failed.
Matt SlaterGUEST
So these things are difficult.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
Ian Davis was there.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
He'd played test cricket and World Series cricket.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
I just couldn't believe I was A, in the team and B, in the company of these guys.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
And my hero was sitting in the dressing room with me.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
The whole thing happened around the fact that the majority of guys in the Australian cricket team and playing shield cricket didn't think they were getting paid well enough, Kerry Packer decided to do something about that.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
Now, the Australian Cricket Board didn't like that, of course, because Kerry signed up all the great players in Australia and all around the world and started paying them decent money.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
The crazy thing was when I got in the New South Wales team, in 1980, which was, as I said, only a season or two seasons after World Series cricket finished.
Mike WhitneyGUEST
And the Australian Cricket Board and World Series cricket got back together and said, you know, this is ridiculous having these two teams playing, one World Series team and one sort of Australian test side, and we should get back together and then, you know, profit on the marks that World Series cricket has made.
Jarrod KimberHOST
Yeah, is he overrated as a test bowler? His overall record is very interesting, but I feel there's something missing.
Jarrod KimberHOST
I think if you put in the World Series cricket period, Juanta, which is probab- I, actually, I'd have to have a look at it, 'cause I haven't.
Jarrod KimberHOST
Um, what have we got? World Series cricket.
Jarrod KimberHOST
I, I would assume he...
Jarrod KimberHOST
I think a lot of his, um, I don't know, what, what would you say? His, um, reputation is sort of bound up in that.
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Jarrod KimberHOST
What are you picking?" Hmm, that's a really fantastic question.
Jarrod KimberHOST
I suppose Bodyline is quite high up.
Jarrod KimberHOST
What else would I have wanted to cover? World Series Cricket, the original one with Kerry Packer I think would've been fascinating.
Damien FlemingHOST
[laughs] So number one, I'm go- I'm going Imran Khan.
Damien FlemingHOST
And for, uh, there's a bit of nostalgia there too, 'cause first cricket- Yeah, cool ... was World Series cricket.
Damien FlemingHOST
Also, um, that jump I had was a little bit inspired by watching Imran, you know, trying to get side on.
Damien FlemingHOST
You know, um, you know- Yeah ...
Damien FlemingHOST
there was a period where early on and late he actually jumped away and bowled in-swingers.
Damien FlemingHOST
But there was a period when he was at his fastest, he actually got that left shoulder around.
Damien FlemingHOST
I think that great English fast bowler, John Snow, did a lot- Mm ... of work with Imran in World Series cricket- Mm ... to get that outswinger for him.
Damien FlemingHOST
And I think he was more destructive when he had both going.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
... and that failed.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
Um, World Series Cricket, if you're into cricket, you know Kerry Packer-
Mick MolloyHOST
Yeah
Titus O'ReilyHOST
... tried to take over it.
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