Lot Essay
The archive includes: large quantity of documents and letter from the ACB includnig signed contracts for domestic and international cricket 1975-1983; memorandum and articles of association of a professional cricketers association; details of prize money, sponsorship payments; promotional and marketing agreements; Tax Returns; investment ventures; letters relating to the settlement of the Clive Lloyd Age newspaper litigation arising from an article impying the fixing of a World Cup cricket match, the 30 plaintiffs included Greg Chappell, Kerry Packer and other mostly senior Australian and West Indian cricketers; Chappell's extensive charity work particularly with the Leukemia foundation of Queensland; Career statistics and 30 wagon wheels of Chappell's innings mostly by Bob Spence QCA score; articles as commentator and journalist; correspondence with the ACB including 'Protected Industrial Action' 1977; Chappell's manuscripts included risqu© songs composed on the 1972 tour of England and 1975 tour of the West Indies; notes on leadership, success in sport and business; descriptions of Steve and Mark Waugh '[Steve ] has the look of a professional assasin...body language screams don't mess with me...Mark Waugh looks more like the charming playboy punter who has put his last dollar on a 20-1 outsider in the last at Royal Randwick and couldn't care less. One, cold and analytical, always playing within his limits, the other a risk-taker, generally, trying to stretch the boundaries...'; descriptions of Allan Border, Mark Taylor, Azahruddin; a large quantity of congratulatory telegrams cover Chappells' cricket career form his first first-class century, selection for Tests, Captaincy, cricket records, retirement, from his supporters reflecting a cross-scetion of Australian society, family, friends, sponsors, politicians including Bill Sneedon, Murray Sargent, Bob Parish, John Brannon, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Leo O'Brien, the Wallabies; quantity of newspaper clippings