World Series Cricket
Bruce Laird was signed up to Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in 1977. He was a star of the tournament playing in 13 Supertests. In four 1977/78 Supertests Laird scored two hundreds, the first in the 3rd Supertest against the West Indies at Football Park, Adelaide. His score of 106 helped the Aussies to a 220 run win. He scored 106 again in the first innings of the first Supertest against the World XI at RAS Showground, Sydney, although he made just six in the second innings as the Australians lost by 4 wickets.
The second season of World Series Cricket was not as successful for Laird. He did not score a century, although he did play in all four of Australia's Supertests. He did enough to be selected for the lucrative WSC Tour of the West Indies. There he played in all five Supertests, scoring one century, 122, in Australia's win at Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad and Tobago. The series was drawn 1-1.
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