World Series Cricket - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• During the life of WSC, 56,126 runs were made and 2,364 wickets taken. The 1977 ruling of the ICC that the matches were not first-class has remained, so none of the WSC players' records include the runs and wickets of the WSC era.
• Originally, the balls used in day-night matches were to be yellow, not white.
• WSC's advertising jingle "C'mon Aussie C'mon" was released as a single and was number one on the Australian charts in February 1979.
• The vast majority of WSC matches were played in whites. The first match to feature coloured uniforms was a limited overs match, WSC Australia versus WSC West Indies at the SCG, played under lights on 17 January 1979.
• McDonalds also promoted the game through printed colour posters, with signatures of all players.
• In the last final, Ian Chappell bowled a 4 wide delivery, to avoid opposition captain Tony Greig scoring the winning runs.