Dennis responsible for Helmets!

[Googley]

Accord to this report, Dennis was the man who introduced helmets.

interesting read.

http://www.mid-day.com/sports/2011/aug/ ... olding.htm

[mikesiva]

Yes, the World Series Cricket of the Packer years is unfairly overlooked by our historians, who really should've given the Packer Tests one of Test status or at least first-class status, such was the quality of cricket played during that revolutionary period of time.

I watched a programme called 'Howzat - Kerry Packer's War', which was excellent, and Dennis Amiss and the helmet issue make an appearance in that two-parter. If you guys can watch it, on youtube or wherever, I recommend it. I found it very informative....

In England, they like to pretend the Packer years never happened, so it gets practically no coverage. Instead, they wax lyrical about Mike Brearley's team beating a third-string Aussie team in an Ashes in front of no Aussie fans!

[Googley]

Packer had the vision to change the game. I think Stanford was on the same track his 2020 vision but he got caught with his pants down in other areas. Plus, his idea was stolen by the IPL.