A chat with my childhood sporting hero to discuss a fundraising dinner took us back to the golden days of World Series Cricket, the SCG Hill, Kerry Packer, and terry-towelling bucket hats.

Part sand hills, part swamp the SCG, one of the world’s premier grounds was used as a rubbish dump in the 1850s and it was only in 1924 that the ground got its modern name. In 1851, it was ...