Cariba Heine | Howzat! Kerry Packer's War

• Genre: Drama, Miniseries
• Written by: Christopher Lee
• Directed by: Daina Reid
• Starring: Lachy Hulme, Matthew Le Nevez, Brendan Cowell, Damon Gameau, Abe Forsythe, Cariba Heine
• No. of episodes: 2
• Executive producers: Jo Rooney, Rory Callaghan
• Producers: Mimi Butler, John Edwards
• Running time: 90 minutes
• Production company: Southern Star Entertainment
• Network: Nine Network
• Release: 19 August – 26 August 2012

The Ashes is the pinnacle of world cricket with two old enemies, Australia and England, going head to head. This series is the story of World Series Cricket and its creator, Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, who signed up the world's greatest players and set up a parallel cricket competition. The Australian cricket team, visiting England in 1977 for the Ashes series, fields a team full of legends. Cricket is undergoing a revolution and the cricket establishment will be brought to its knees.

Episode 1

In June 1976, Kerry Packer decides to declare war on the cricket establishment by secretly signing about 50 of the world's greatest players to form a break-away rebel tournament for salaries much larger than those offered by the cricket boards. The birth of World Series Cricket would change public opinion and challenge the establishment.

Episode 2

With attacks from the establishment and the media and a conflict among the players putting his plans for World Series Cricket into disarray and threatening to ruin him financially, Kerry Packer and his team take their most radical steps yet in a bid to win over both the players and the public.