Pascoe, who runs a sports entertainment business, has spent the past week fielding questions about the accuracy of the events portrayed in the mini-series.
Howzat! was told through the eyes of late media magnate Kerry Packer (Lachy Hulme), with the players forming part of the support cast. Pascoe also said a golden opportunity has also passed to tell the “real” story behind WSC while taking aim at the accuracy of some events portrayed in the two-part telemovie. “It wasn’t until much later when they experimented with the orange balls and the lime greens, but there was never a white ball manufactured for quite some time.” “The next night we were training at VFL Park under lights and Austin Robertson was sitting in the back with white shoe polish, painting the balls white. “Now whether that was a reaffirmation of what Strop (Cornell) was thinking, I don’t know, but it was never discussed in the first three months of that series. “I distinctly remember saying to the Chappells in a hotel bar that we play soccer under lights and we play baseball under lights, so why not play cricket under lights,” Pascoe said.
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The popular mini-series, which attracted almost three million viewers across Australia last night, depicted TV personality John Cornell as the mastermind of night cricket matches in a bid to improve poor attendances during World Series Cricket.īut Pascoe said he was the one who suggested the idea to Ian and Greg Chappell at a team meeting in a hotel bar as they addressed the low crowd figures during the first three months of Packer’s breakaway cricket series. AUSTRALIAN pace great Len Pascoe says the creators of TV drama Howzat! Kerry Packer's War have credited the wrong person with inventing day/night cricket.
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