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Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper cuttings, minutes, postcards and reports relating to the MCC A tour of Pakistan, 1955-1956. Subjects include the report by C G Howard, Manager, and D B Carr, Captain, on the tour, Carr's individual reports on the players for the tour, naming of the team for the tour, remarks on the incident involving the ragging of Idris Beg, umpire, by the MCC team in Peshawar, press statements concerning the incident, minutes of a meeting between the team and members of the MCC Committee regarding the incident, report on the tour from R A Roberts, Daily Telegraph Cricket Correspondent, copy of article from Time Magazine regarding the Idris Begh incident, an official apology to both Begh and the MCC President signed by all members of the MCC team, letters to counties reporting on their players who were on the MCC tour, decision to send cufflinks to the MCC team as a gift to commemorate the tour, itineraries for the tour, minutes of the Sub-Committee appointed to deal with the tour to Pakistan.

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