Baggy Green: world series to world champions. Viv Jenkins. 1998.

In many eyes it is as old fashioned as good manners, but the Baggy Green, the unique cap worn by Australia’s finest cricketers, remains one of the nation’s most revered sporting symbols.

Modern-day marketing blitzes may have sewn commercialism into the fabric of other inspirational sporting emblems - the traditional Wallaby jumper, for example - but the Baggy Green has survived. Player power has saved it, just as people power has preserved so much of the nation’s architectural heritage.

Viv Jenkins, through the lens of his cameras, perfectly captures this ‘never say die’ nationalistic mood of the players toward the symbol of their success. There are tough moments, rough ones and even some very fun ones in Jenkins’ portfolio of the extraordinary forces that come into play when the cream of Australia’s cricketers put their Baggy Greens  ‘on the line’ on sometimes bloody battlefields.