By 1979, in his 11th test, he found himself captain of the struggling young Board team.
Either way, he ended up on the Australian Cricket Board side of the war and with the top players missing he moved instantly from fringe player to mainstay of the batting order. Hughes claims that he turned down an offer to join WSC, while key WSC figures claim no offer was ever made. In 1977 Hughes was a promising young player on the fringes of the Australian test team. Nonetheless it's a highly sympathetic account of his career. Unlike many of his famous contemporaries, Hughes never wrote his own memoirs, and he didn't cooperate with this bio either. If you wanted an insight into the other side of the World Series Cricket saga, it would be hard to go past Christian Ryan's 2009 biography of Kim Hughes, Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket.
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